More From Thomas Carlyle
- "Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."
- "Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."
- "Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death."
More In Good
- "In France, everyone speaks French ’cause they think it’s cool. Gives ’em, gives ’em an excuse to smoke."― Scott Thompson
- "There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."― Thomas W. Higginson
- "It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."― Thomas Jefferson