Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man.
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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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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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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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Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.