It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through! — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to 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
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold… — 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
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you.… — 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
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity. — 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
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking? — 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
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
