Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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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 dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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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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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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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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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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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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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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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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The genuine essence of truth never dies.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.