Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.
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All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
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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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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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Lies exist only to be extinguished.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.