Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. — 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
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their… — 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
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die,… — 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
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act… — 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
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. — 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
The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not… — 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
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the… — 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
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are 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
