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

    Thomas Carlyle: There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
    John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.