Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
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To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.
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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.
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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?