“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
“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Work alone is noble.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
– 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
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
– Thomas Carlyle