Thomas Carlyle Quote

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.


Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished (ed. 1857)


There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.