When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. – Thomas Carlyle
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. – Thomas Carlyle
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. – Thomas Carlyle