More From Thomas Carlyle
- "There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."
- "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
- "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."
More In Age
- "It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."― Virginia Woolf
- "I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began."― John Henrik Clarke
- "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."― Albert Einstein