Nov 19, 2013
Let it be your satisfaction, the highest a man can have in this world, that the talent intrusted to you did not lie useless, but was turned to account and proved itself to be a talent; and the “publishing world” can receive it altogether according to their own pleasure, raise it high on the housetops, or trample it low into the street-kennels
- Thomas Carlyle
in a letter to David Lester Richardson, Dec 19th 1837
Read full letter here: http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/full/9/1/lt-18371219-TC-DLR-01
