Thomas Carlyle

To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be read more

To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue
always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful;
and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my
hand alters the centre of gravity read more

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my
hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Wonder is the basis of worship

Wonder is the basis of worship