Quotes By Thomas Carlyle

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

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

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

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

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.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

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

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.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

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

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

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.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.