Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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Nature admits no lie.
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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
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Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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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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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.
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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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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.
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Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.