Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
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Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.