Thomas Carlyle on Education
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.
Thomas Carlyle on Work
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle on Silence
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.
Thomas Carlyle on Conceit
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.