There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
From Thomas Carlyle
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
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