1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?
Thomas Carlyle – [Facts]
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle – [Books and Reading]
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle – [Ability]
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle – [Silence]
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Thomas Carlyle – [Technology]
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle – [Wonder]
Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
Thomas Carlyle – [Public Opinion]
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance — the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle – [Cheerfulness]
Work alone is noble.
Thomas Carlyle – [Work]
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Thomas Carlyle – [Worship]
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle – [Writers and Writing]
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle – [Youth]
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