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Thomas Carlyle
Pin your faith...
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
Source: In
Nothing is more...
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Source: In Webster's...
Society is founded...
Society is founded upon cloth.
Source: In
Reform is not...
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a...
Oblivion is the...
Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters; were it all light, nothing could be read...
Real good breeding,...
Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful...
One seems to...
One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on,...
Song is the...
Song is the heroics of speech.
Source: In
Rest is for...
Rest is for the dead.
Source: 'Journal', June 22, 1830
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4...
Old age is...
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind...
Respectable Professors of...
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Source: Referring to...
Pleasure is the...
Pleasure is the last resort of the desperate. Happy people do not need to be amused.
Speech is of...
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
Source: 'Sartor Resartus'
-- Thomas...
The block of...
The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the...
Only the person...
Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
Source: In
See deep enough,...
See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Quackery gives birth...
Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
Source: Heroes and...
The Ideal is...
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
Source: Sartor...
The crash of...
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
Source:...
Our life is...
Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a...