My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
Robert Carlyle
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object... →