Quote of the Day (Thomas Carlyle, on Books and the ‘Audible Voice of the Past’)

"In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream." —Scottish historian, essayist and philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Lectures on Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (1841)