If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering. — 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… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by… — 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
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and… — 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
To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience… — 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
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes. — 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
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
... There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the… — 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
