Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. — 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
