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Famous Thomas Carlyle Quotes
“Infinite is the help man can yield to man.”
“A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.”
“'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.”
“All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.”
“A thought once awakened does not again slumber.”
“We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.”
“Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.”
“True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.”
“A man perfects himself by working.”
“The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.”
“Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.”
“Habit is the deepest law of human nature”
“Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?”
“A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.”
“He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.”
“Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.”
“Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.”
“Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.”
“A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.”
“Properly speaking, all true work is religion.”
“No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.”