Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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All comes out even at the end of the day.
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To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?
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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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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
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We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.