Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
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A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
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A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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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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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.