Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered. — 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
We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is… — 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
There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself. — 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
