Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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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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A noble book! all men's book!
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
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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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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
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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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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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