There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Manners are stronger than laws

Manners are stronger than laws

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

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

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

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind...

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind...

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to...

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to...

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

Silence is more eloquent than words

Silence is more eloquent than words

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin;...

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin;...

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and...

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and...

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame...

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame...