A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest. — 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
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes. — 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
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
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few… — 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
A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on… — 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
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself… — 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
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
