"Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity." — Thomas Carlyle

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time

Source: The Builders, The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Thomas Carlyle Quote