All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question… Any
- Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into… Able
- The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for… All
- Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only… Any
- Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. All
- We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another… All
- Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . .… Admirable
- All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is… All
- In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the… Acknowledged
- We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… Adjust
- Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh,… All
- The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity;… Accurately
- A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He… Acting
- In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol… Accordingly
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and… Ask
- Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs… Brain
- Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. Bag
- The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that… Age
- Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by… Any
- Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth. Consumerism
- The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the… All
- Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish. Environmental
- We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs… Axioms
- Debt is a bottomless sea. Borrowing
- Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.… Architect