Joy Gower

“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.”
― Thomas Carlyle