Thomas Carlyle And Quotations

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?