Quotes Thomas Carlyle

Every noble work is at first impossible....

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, b...

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of lig...

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing ...

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, na...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into...

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loath...

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains....

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able ...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as...

Happy the people whose annals are vacant....

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be ...

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everyt...

History shows that the majority of people that have done any...

History, a distillation of rumour....

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of p...

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual igno...

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with ...

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great de...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less ...

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than b...

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more ...

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victo...

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded....

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl...