Maxioms by Thomas Carlyle
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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.
Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly
at a distance, but to do what lies read more
Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly
at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
