What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts — 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
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — 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
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. — 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
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye… — 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
