71 quotes by Thomas Carlyle

“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Wonder is the basis of worship.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” — Thomas Carlyle

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“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Every noble work is at first impossible.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.” — Thomas Carlyle

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