We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
