Quote #96
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
More from Thomas Carlyle
- Captains of Industry.
- A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. It they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
- He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
- Lord Bacon could as easily have created this planet as he could have written Hamlet.
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- No pressure, no diamonds.
- Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
- It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.