I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have... →
Robert Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight... →
Thomas Carlyle
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing... →
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life... →
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Bliss Carman