Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
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O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
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Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.