Thomas Carlyle

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

So here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip read more

So here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?
Out of eternity
This new day is born,
Into eternity
At night will return.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to read more

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.