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

— Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Book I, Ch. 4

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.”

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

“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”

“Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.”

“The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.”

“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”

“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”

“Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.”

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”