A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - 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."

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

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."

"True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper."