More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
  2. Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot q…
  3. He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates,…
  4. Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.
  5. No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
  6. Wonder is the basis of worship.
  7. The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.
  8. What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.

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