Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

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

Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men...(The Everlasting No)