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
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has… — 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
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of… — 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
