Quotes
Quotes - Carlyle
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.
Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
