Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
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Biography is the only true history.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!
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Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.