Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Wonder is the basis of worship

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come

Biography is the only true history

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only

I`ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

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

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

Ridicule is the language of the devil

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

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it