"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."
"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."
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."