Thomas Carlyle Quotes and Quotations
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.
In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people, with their wisdom and unwisdom.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament; but in the reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
Silence is deep as Eternity; speech, shallow as Time.
All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
He that can work is a born king of something.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.
Here hath been dawning another blue day: think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Give me a man who sings at his work.
Today is not yesterday; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful.
It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
The end of man is action.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Give me a man who sings at his work.
The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
If you can walk, you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
Biography is the only true history.
Debt is a bottomless sea.
Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.
History, a distillation of rumor
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Man is a tool-using animal.
We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
His religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rebelais, a great Perhaps.
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.