4 Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Books

Thomas Carlyle quotes on books

36. The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.

82. In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

84. All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

85. 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.