Alas! such is the miseducation of these days, it is only among those that are called the uneducated classes — those educated by experience — that you can look for a Man. Even among these, such a sight is growing daily rarer. My father, in several respects, has not, that I can think of, left his fellow. Perhaps among Scottish peasants what Samuel Johnson was among English authors. I have a sacred pride in my peasant father, and would not exchange him, even now, for any king known to me. Gold and the guinea stamp — the Man and the clothes of the man. Let me thank God for that greatest of blessings, and strive to live worthily of it.


Reminiscences (1881)

Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Alas! such is the miseducation of these days, it is only among those that are called the uneducated classes — those educated by experience — that ...

Alas! such is the miseducation of these days, it is only among those that are called the uneducated classes — those educated by experience — that ...

Alas! such is the miseducation of these days, it is only among those that are called the uneducated classes — those educated by experience — that ...

Alas! such is the miseducation of these days, it is only among those that are called the uneducated classes — those educated by experience — that ...