Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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The genuine essence of truth never dies.
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He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
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Time has only a relative existence.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.