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
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the… — 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
