Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
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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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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.
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History is the new poetry.
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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
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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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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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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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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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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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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.