“Any the smallest alteration of my silent daily habits produces anarchy in me”

“It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.”

“Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.”

“My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)”

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”

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

“Bright, heroic, tender, true and noble was that lost treasure of my heart, who faithfully accompanied me in all the rocky ways and climbings; and I am forever poor without her.”