The great law of culture is: let each become all that he was created capable of being.
-- Thomas Carlyle
The all of things is an infinite conjugation of the verb to do.
-- Thomas Carlyle
History: a distillation of rumor.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
-- Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
-- Thomas Carlyle
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
-- Thomas Carlyle
A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.
-- Thomas Carlyle
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
-- Thomas Carlyle
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
-- Thomas Carlyle
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
-- Thomas Carlyle
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
-- Thomas Carlyle
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
-- Thomas Carlyle
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
-- Thomas Carlyle
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
-- Thomas Carlyle
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle
The end of man is Action and not a Thought, though it were the noblest.
-- Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The History of the world is but the Biography of great men.
-- Thomas Carlyle
History: A distillation of rumour.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world.
-- Thomas Carlyle
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the center of gravity of the Universe.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
-- Thomas Carlyle
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