3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
