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

— Thomas Carlyle, "Characteristics", Essays

About Thomas Carlyle

1795 – 1881

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

“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.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“Faithful, indeed, is the spirit that remembers After such years of change and suffering!”

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”