It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
... There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. — 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
