Thomas Carlyle Quotes
1795 – 1881
Scottish historian and essayist, author of "Sartor Resartus".
26 quotesAbout Thomas Carlyle on Wikipedia
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
“The true University of these days is a collection of Books.”
“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”
“A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”
“The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.”
“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
“He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.”
“In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.”
“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”
“There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.”
“Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.”
“Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.”
“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
“Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.”
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
