Thomas Carlyle Faults Quotations

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

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

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

The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.