Thomas Carlyle
127 quotations
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Variety is the condition of harmony.
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Work alone is noble.
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
The king is the man who can.
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
The archenemy is the arch stupid!
All great peoples are conservative.
The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.