Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Give me a man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
He that can work is a born king of something.
Thomas Carlyle
All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.
Thomas Carlyle
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.
Thomas Carlyle
The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.
Thomas Carlyle
Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Thomas Carlyle
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
Speech is silvern silence is golden.
Thomas Carlyle
Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
Every noble crown is and on Earth will forever be a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.
Thomas Carlyle
The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
Of all the paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path ... a thing which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.
Thomas Carlyle
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
Thomas Carlyle
His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.
Thomas Carlyle
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.
Thomas Carlyle
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.
Thomas Carlyle
Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.
Thomas Carlyle
Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Thomas Carlyle
Of all the paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path ... a thing which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.
Thomas Carlyle
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
Thomas Carlyle
His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.
Thomas Carlyle
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.
Thomas Carlyle
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.
Thomas Carlyle
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.
Thomas Carlyle
Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.
Thomas Carlyle
Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Thomas Carlyle
Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?
Thomas Carlyle
We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God.
Thomas Carlyle
Man is a tool-using animal.
Thomas Carlyle
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Thomas Carlyle
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
Thomas Carlyle
Burke 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
Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
Thomas Carlyle
It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
History a distillation of rumor
Thomas Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Thomas Carlyle