I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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
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
