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Famous Thomas Carlyle Quotes
“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
“Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.”
“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.”
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”
“I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.”
“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
“He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.”
“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
“The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.”
“A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”
“Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.”
“In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.”
“It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.”
“Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.”
“Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.”
“The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.”
“A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.”
“Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.”
“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.”
“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”