71 quotes by Thomas Carlyle

“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Work alone is noble.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“All great peoples are conservative.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“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

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“Endurance is patience concentrated.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“History, a distillation of rumour.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“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

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“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“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.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” — Thomas Carlyle

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