Quotes
Quotes - Carlyle
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Even in the meanest sorts of Labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
A healthy hatred of scoundrels.
Nature admits no lie.
A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
Genius ... means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books.
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.
What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
Alas the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,--"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
One life,--a little gleam of time between two Eternities.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The Press is the Fourth Estate of the realm.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. 1
My whinstone house my castle is;
I have my own four walls.
The unspeakable Turk.
