Thomas CarlyleThinkers

The Accidental is, in painting, in fact a 'controlled looseness' in which is always maintained as a top priority.

The Biography is rarely good. A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

The Book is a thing which, if it will not improve by repeated readings, does not deserve to be read at all.

Censorship is contrary to the right of every human being to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him.

A Dandy is a poet of clothing.

Education is dependent upon the books we choose to read after all of the professors have finished with us.

History is a kind of distilled newspaper.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The Journalist is the ruler of the world, being, as it were, the persuader of it.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, insofar as it is confined to the human species.