This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that… — 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
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt… — 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
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day… — 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
