He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everyt... - Thomas Carlyle

"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."

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

"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."

"(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."

"All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."