Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The mathematics of high achievement.
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Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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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 that can work is born to be king of something.
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The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
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The devil has his elect.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
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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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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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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.