May Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

— Thomas Carlyle

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

— Thomas Carlyle

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

— Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

— Thomas Carlyle

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

— Thomas Carlyle

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

— Thomas Carlyle

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest…

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the…

— Thomas Carlyle

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest…

— Thomas Carlyle

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a…

— Thomas Carlyle

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it;…

— Thomas Carlyle

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

— Thomas Carlyle

There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be…

— Thomas Carlyle

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost…

— Thomas Carlyle

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas…

— Thomas Carlyle

Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to…

— Thomas Carlyle

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You…

— Thomas Carlyle

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts,…

— Thomas Carlyle

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his…

— Thomas Carlyle

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this…

— Thomas Carlyle

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was…

— Thomas Carlyle

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages,…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle…

— Thomas Carlyle