Carlyle Quotes
No book that will not improve by repeated readings, deserves to be read at all.
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past when the body and material substance of has altogether vanished like a dream.
All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
Poetry we will call Musical Thought.
All poetry is but a giving of names.
Of all acts of man, repentance is the most divine.
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself,dwells in the breast of man. -- It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
Nothing ever happens but once in this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
The sincere alone can recognise sincerity.
Hope ushers a Revolution—as earthquakes are preceded by bright weather.