Solitary Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

— Thomas Carlyle

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

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

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

— Thomas Carlyle

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

Thought will not work except in silence.

— Thomas Carlyle