Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.

The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.

History a distillation of rumor

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

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.

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.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God.

Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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.

Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.

Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

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.

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.

His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Every noble crown is and on Earth will forever be a crown of thorns.

Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time.

Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.

Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.

Speech is silvern silence is golden.

Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.

All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

He that can work is a born king of something.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.

Work alone is noble.

If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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.