All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- Variety is the condition of harmony. Condition
- Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. Harmony
- Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by. Bless
- He that can work is born to be king of something. Birth
- Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself. Convince
- Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. From
- The actual well seen is ideal. Actual
- Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. Dishonesty
- Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to… Become Clearer
- O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. Bitter
- It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one. All
- What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of… All
- Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as… Become Good
- History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what… All
- Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on… All
- Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them. Abolishes
- Biography is the only true history. Biographies
- The whole past is the procession of the present. History
- Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose… Able
- The archenemy is the arch stupid! Arch
- Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or… Affect
- Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound… Admonished
- Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! All
- The universe is but one vast Symbol of God. Diversity
- Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of… Abject