Thomas Carlyle

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

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 in creation?

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.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.