Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light,… — 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 Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
