“A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.”

— Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843, Bk. III, ch. 4

About Thomas Carlyle

1795 – 1881

Scottish historian and essayist, author of "Sartor Resartus".

“Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.”

“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.”

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.”

“Life is our dictionary.”

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”