More From Thomas Carlyle
- "A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun."
- "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."
- "There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."
More In Wisdom
- "Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."― John Updike
- "So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."― Zooey Deschanel
- "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."― Henry Ford