A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin;… — 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
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a… — 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
