The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into… — 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
Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can… — 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
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — 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
