Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
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Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
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Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
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He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.
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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.