Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist. - Thomas Carlyle

In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie.

I plead guilty to valuing such a man beyond all other sorts of men. Smooth-shaven Respectabilities not a few one finds, that are not good for much. Small thanks to a man for keeping his hands clean, who would not touch the work but with gloves on!

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.