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Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ... Read Full Quote
What we become depends on what we read after all of the ... Read Full Quote
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no oth ... Read Full Quote
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is ... Read Full Quote
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ... Read Full Quote
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out w ... Read Full Quote
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter ... Read Full Quote
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and c ... Read Full Quote
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, ... Read Full Quote
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not eve ... Read Full Quote
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. ... Read Full Quote
Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time. ... Read Full Quote
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent o ... Read Full Quote
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history ... Read Full Quote
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be consciou ... Read Full Quote
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better ... Read Full Quote
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man ... Read Full Quote
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty ... Read Full Quote
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that th ... Read Full Quote
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a di ... Read Full Quote
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to ... Read Full Quote
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or ... Read Full Quote
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternitie ... Read Full Quote
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but mor ... Read Full Quote
The best effect of any book is that it excites the read ... Read Full Quote
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity ... Read Full Quote
Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it ... Read Full Quote
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a ... Read Full Quote
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish an ... Read Full Quote