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

“Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.”

“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.”

“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.”

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

“A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.”

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