Thomas Carlyle ( 10 of 167 )
Speech is great; but silence is greater.
Speech is great; but silence is greater.
Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Supply-and-demand, -- read more
Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Supply-and-demand, -- alas! For what noble work was there ever yet any audible demand in that poor sense? The man of Macedonia, speaking in vision to the Apostle Paul, "Come over and help us", did not specify what rate of wages he would give.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a
probability of such: it is an read more
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a
probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to read more
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for read more
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.
Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no
value at all and even less.
Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no
value at all and even less.
