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
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. — 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
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man… — 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
Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only… — 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
A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him". — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and… — 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
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
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
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
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him,… — 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
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
