All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Age
- What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. Ability
- When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. Appear
- Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. Dreadful
- Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. All
- Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it… Born
- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it;… Better
- True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter,… Contempt
- Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free… Confines
- Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own… All
- Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot… All
- To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a… All
- I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a… Daily
- It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;… Age
- Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life,… Delight
- Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its… Awakened
- It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. Attitude
- My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. Castle
- One monster there is in the world, the idle man. Human Nature
- I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity. Gorilla
- One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. Appreciation
- The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened,… All
- Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do… Affection
- Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. Contented
- Violence does even justice unjustly. Doe