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Thomas Carlyle
We were wise...
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages,...
The soul gives...
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
Source: In
There is a...
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not...
Variety is the...
Variety is the condition of harmony.
Source: In
We call it...
We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual...
Weak eyes are...
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Source: In
Thought is the...
Thought is the parent of the deed.
Source: In
There is often...
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
What an enormous...
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when...
What I loved...
What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite...
What is aristocracy?...
What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest.
Source: 'Chartism' ...
Under all speech...
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is...
There is only...
There is only one post fit for you, and that is the office of perpetual president of the Heaven and Hell Amalgamation...
What are your...
What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man. . . by stringing-together...
When we can...
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars;...
What you see,...
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Source: In
Wonder is the...
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
When an oak-tree...
When an oak-tree is felled the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some...
What is philosophy...
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
Source: In Webster's...
Wonderful Force of...
Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids...