The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate,… — 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
