A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle

"(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."

"My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)"

"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."

"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."