Quotes from Carlyle

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little me

Debt is a bottomless sea.