Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero — 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
Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“But figure his thought, when Death is now clutching at his own heart-strings, unlooked for, inexorable! Yes, poor Louis, Death has found… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
This is the eternal law of Nature for a man, my beneficent Exeter-Hall friends; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—that great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind… — 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
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years… — 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
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
