Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too,… — 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
We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know… — 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
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE… — 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
