The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal… — 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
