Thomas Carlyle quotes
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
Take this quote mobile"France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams."
"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."
"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
"Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is."
"That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy."
"The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity."
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."