Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
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.
All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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.
No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
