Quotes

“Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.” Thomas Carlyle

“History, a distillation of rumour.” Thomas Carlyle

“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.” Thomas Carlyle

“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.” Thomas Carlyle

“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.” Thomas Carlyle

“Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.” Thomas Carlyle

“The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.” Thomas Carlyle

“The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.” Thomas Carlyle

“The true university of these days is a collection of books.” Thomas Carlyle

“To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.” Thomas Carlyle

“Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.” Thomas Carlyle

“Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.” Thomas Carlyle

“Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.” Thomas Carlyle

“Happy the people whose annals are vacant.” Thomas Carlyle

“If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” Thomas Carlyle

“Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.” Thomas Carlyle

“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.” Thomas Carlyle

“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.” Thomas Carlyle

“It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.” Thomas Carlyle

“Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.” Thomas Carlyle

“Let each become all that he was created capable of being.” Thomas Carlyle

“Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.” Thomas Carlyle

“Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.” Thomas Carlyle

“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.” Thomas Carlyle

“Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.” Thomas Carlyle

“Necessity dispenseth with decorum.” Thomas Carlyle

“No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.” Thomas Carlyle

“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.” Thomas Carlyle

“No violent extreme endures.” Thomas Carlyle

“Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.” Thomas Carlyle