“Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults . . . is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle)”

“The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.”

“(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.”

“The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.”

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

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”