Not all his men may sever this, It yields to friends', not monarchs', calls; My whinstone house my castle is— I have my own four walls. - Thomas Carlyle

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.

The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. We must get rid of Fear; we cannot act at all till then. A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious; his very thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward till he have got Fear under his feet. Odin's creed, if we disentangle the real kernel of it, is true to this hour. A man shall and must be valiant; he must march forward and quit himself like a man - trusting imperturbably in the appointment and choice of the upper Powers; and on the whole not fear at all. Now and always, the completeness of his victory over Fear will determine how much of a man he is.