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• To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea
  hat, namely, of la carriere ouverte aux talents,--the tools to him that can handle them....
• Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review, 1838...
• The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion.
  He himself never knows it, much less do others....
• There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a ma
  also it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed....
• Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review, 1838...
• The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.
• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
  Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as time....
• When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
  -- Sir Walter Sco...
• The difference between a rich man and a poor man is thi
  he former eats when he pleases, the latter when he can get it. -- Sir Walter Raleigh...