"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."
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Source: Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.147
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