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
Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the… — 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
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered,… — 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
