Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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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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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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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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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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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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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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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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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?