Thomas Carlyle

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

"Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind."

"Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him."

"Be not a slave of words."

"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."

"The end of man is action."