Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. — 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
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure,… — 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
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
