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

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 us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life.”

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

“He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.”

“Books are the way that we communicate with the dead.”

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”