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 Quotes
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Is man’s civilization only a wrapper, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus Christ? The great Conscious; the immeasurably great Unconscious.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
There is no greater every-day virtue than cheerfulness. This quality in man among men is like sunshine to the day, or gentle renewing moisture to parched herbs. The light of a cheerful face diffuses itself, and communicates the happy spirit that inspires it. The sourest temper must sweeten in the atmosphere of continuous good humor.
Today is not yesterday. We ourselves change. How then, can our words and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful; and if memory has its force and worth, so also has hope.
Aesop’s Fly, sitting on the axle of the chariot, has been much laughed at for exclaiming: What a dust I do raise!
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair!
