Thomas Carlyle

“By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.”

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

“Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.”

“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.”