More quotes by Thomas Carlyle

"All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
"(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."
"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."