“France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.”

— Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, 1837, Pt. I, Bk. I, ch. 1

About Thomas Carlyle

1795 – 1881

Scottish historian and essayist, author of "Sartor Resartus".

“Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.”

“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”

“The true University of these days is a collection of Books.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”