Thomas Carlyle
- In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
(topic: books)
- No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
(topic: laughter)
- Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite.
(topic: music)
- The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.
(topic: time)
- I don't pretend to understand the Universe--it's a great deal bigger than I am.
(topic: universe)
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