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“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”
Thomas Carlyle
“I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.”
Thomas Carlyle
“If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”
Thomas Carlyle
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle
“No person is important enough to make me angry.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
Thomas Carlyle
“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
Thomas Carlyle
“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.”
Thomas Carlyle
“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”
Thomas Carlyle
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.”
Thomas Carlyle
“He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
Thomas Carlyle
“No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.”
Thomas Carlyle
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.”
Thomas Carlyle
“All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”
Thomas Carlyle
“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
Thomas Carlyle
