Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
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O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
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Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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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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Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
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A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
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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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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.
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It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.
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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
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The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin.
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In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
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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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Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.