Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both… — 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
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly… — 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
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
