“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
– 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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Work alone is noble.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
– 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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”
– 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?”
– Thomas Carlyle
“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”
– 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.”
– 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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
– 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.”
– 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.”
– 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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
– 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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Wonder is the basis of worship.”
– 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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.”
– Thomas Carlyle