truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:16 am

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:17 am

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:19 am

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:20 am

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:21 am

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:23 am

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:24 am

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite.
Thomas Carlyle