Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but… — 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
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to… — 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
