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7385fda The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. Thomas Carlyle
56442f2 A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle
3e43836 Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle
a955b7f Wonder, indeed, is, on all hands, dying out: it is the sign of uncultivation to wonder. Thomas Carlyle
19d0bdd With what scientific stoicism he walks through the land of wonders, unwondering. Thomas Carlyle
f53b02a The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble. Thomas Carlyle
e5b7dba The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in? Thomas Carlyle
8ecb5d8 All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. Thomas Carlyle
75b7f08 The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Thomas Carlyle
9d80428 Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls. Thomas Carlyle
1df0b6c All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. Thomas Carlyle
a2b54de No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Thomas Carlyle
425b27e Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. Thomas Carlyle
d269564 Be not the slave of Words. Thomas Carlyle
a15c860 Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe. Thomas Carlyle
34609b0 Wonder is the basis of worship. Thomas Carlyle
b1d17e7 What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. Thomas Carlyle
5ef162d With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much. Thomas Carlyle
cca28b6 Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself. Thomas Carlyle
665a05e Love not Pleasure; love God. Thomas Carlyle
7884ea6 France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams. Thomas Carlyle
c012341 To a shower of gold most things are penetrable. Thomas Carlyle
a021aed The people may eat grass": hasty words, which fly abroad irrevocable--and will send back tidings. Thomas Carlyle
4640afa A whiff of grapeshot. Thomas Carlyle
b181612 O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. Thomas Carlyle
43783ae Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves. Thomas Carlyle
38e60b7 History a distillation of Rumour. Thomas Carlyle
c839a44 He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide. Thomas Carlyle
ff0fb6e The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do. Thomas Carlyle
f13c0a9 The difference between Orthodoxy or Mydoxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy. Thomas Carlyle
72074b1 So here hath been dawningSlip useless away. Thomas Carlyle
37b140d Every noble work is at first impossible. Thomas Carlyle
8b75534 A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. Thomas Carlyle
c69fe4f The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle
ec03a01 The Age of Miracles is forever here! Thomas Carlyle
94e94b5 Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised. Thomas Carlyle
1c2de4c It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us. Thomas Carlyle
5e522c6 The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. Thomas Carlyle
f2ca589 One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore! Thomas Carlyle
937469a To this man life is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrible, as death. Thomas Carlyle
7a180bb Fire is the best of servents; but what a master! Thomas Carlyle
39b9499 Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. Thomas Carlyle
393c9e3 Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle
7510d36 Captains of Industry. Thomas Carlyle