Thomas Carlyle

"Why not? What is to hinder this Samson from governing? There is in him what far transcends all apprenticeships; in the man himself there exists a model of governing, something to govern by! There exis…"

"To the Arab Nation it was as a birth from darkness into light; Arabia first became alive by means of it. A poor shepherd people, roaming unnoticed in its deserts since the creation of the world: a Her…"

"Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense."

"Religion in most countries, more or less in every country, is no longer what it was, and should be,—a thousand-voiced psalm from the heart of Man to his invisible Father, the fountain of all Goodness,…"

"No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life."

"The panting breathless haste and vehemence of a man struggling in the thick of battle for life and salvation; this is the mood he is in!"

"It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts."