Quotes By Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

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.

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

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.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Work alone is noble.

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

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

No violent extreme endures.

Be not a slave of words.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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

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

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

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