Famous Quotes

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

• The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
• The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
• The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
• The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
• The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
• The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
• The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
• The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
• There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
• This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
• To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.