Quote #4

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
  2. Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.
  3. It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
  4. So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
  5. Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
  6. He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
  7. Here numerous persons, with big wigs many of them, and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science, start up in an a…
  8. A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.

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