Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
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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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Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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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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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.
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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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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
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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 block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
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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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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.