What you see, but cant see over is as good as infinite. – Thomas Carlyle
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. – Thomas Carlyle
I never thought Id be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. – Caroline Kennedy