"A good book is the purest essence of a human soul."
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

"Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them."
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

"France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams."
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

"How delicate, how decent is English biography, bless its mealy mouth."
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

"In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing."
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)