Quotes By Thomas Carlyle

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

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.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

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

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

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.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

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.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

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.