If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even cr... - Thomas Carlyle

"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."

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

"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."

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

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