Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe… — 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
Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — 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
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some… — 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
