“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Endurance is patience concentrated.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
– 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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.”
– 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.”
– 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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
– 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
“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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.”
– 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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
– 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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“History, a distillation of rumour.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.”
– Thomas Carlyle