Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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A man's perfection is his work.
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
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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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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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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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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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And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.
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The age of miracles is forever here.