For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house! — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find… — 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
Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no… — 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
