It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on… — 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
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering. — 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
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — 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
