Thomas Carlyle

“All great peoples are conservative.”

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

“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.”

“Work alone is noble.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“History, a distillation of rumour.”

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

“Endurance is patience concentrated.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”