Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
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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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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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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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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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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 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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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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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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The genuine essence of truth never dies.
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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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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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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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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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
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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 philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.