Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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The genuine essence of truth never dies.
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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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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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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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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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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
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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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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
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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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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.
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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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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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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.