Thomas Carlyle

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty read more

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive

Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive

Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.

Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.

Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what read more

Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.