The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy, excess of sensibility… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin. — 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
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder.… — 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… — 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
