Thomas Carlyle

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

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.

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious read more

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the
question, and the country be left to honest European read more

The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the
question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.