Quote #8542
If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss...
Category Archives: Thomas Carlyle
Quote #8001
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must...
Quote #7573
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Quote #7526
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I...
Quote #7164
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing...
Quote #6813
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have...
Quote #6125
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Quote #5310
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Quote #2361
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They...
Quote #2008
France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.