Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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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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Debt is a bottomless sea.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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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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God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
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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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The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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!