More quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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