Beautiful Thoughts (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Beautiful Thoughts

All that was strong claimed his homage. Shams and subterfuges were the butt of his sarcasm because they were the symbols of weakness. The really strong man disdained all lies because he was powerful enough to be truthful, even if truth was brutal in its expression. It is in his delineation of the forces and pas sions that move great men and great masses of people that Carlyle compels our admiration, and has added to our literature an abundance of Beautiful Thoughts. Thoughts that are Beauti ful, not by reason of their elegance of diction or of expression, but Beautiful in their strength and ruggedness, having the beauty not of the flower but of the grey granite that towers above the pretty verdure at its feet.

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