3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
