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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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
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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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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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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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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 whole past is the procession of the present.
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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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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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A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.