What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? – Thomas Carlyle
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. – Thomas Carlyle
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. – Thomas Carlyle