Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret. - Thomas Carlyle

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

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If Governments neglect to invite what noble intellect there is, then too surely all intellect, not omnipotent to resist bad influences, will tend to become beaverish ignoble intellect; and quitting high aims, which seem shut up from it, will help itself forward in the way of making money and such like; or will even sink to be sham intellect, helping itself by methods which are not only beaverish but vulpine, and so "ignoble" as not to have common honesty.