Thomas Carlyle Quotes
+2Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Violence does even justice unjustly.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1The mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Speech is great; but silence is greater.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Silence is more eloquent than words.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome.Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
- Thomas Carlyle
+1What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Endurance is patience concentrated.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
+1Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Literary Men are a perpetual priesthood.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1The true university these days is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1History, a distillation of rumor.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1The actual well seen is ideal.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1History may be called, more generally still, the Message, verbal or written, which all Mankind delivers to everyman.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Nine tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1History is a great dust heap.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1All men are created equal, then a few become firemen. – Unknown Author
0Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
- Thomas Carlyle
0Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
- Thomas Carlyle
0Every noble work is at first impossible.
- Thomas Carlyle
0Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do.
- Thomas Carlyle
0Life is a little gleam of time between two eternities.
- Thomas Carlyle
