Quote: A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: Clever men are good, but they are not the best. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: The devil has his elect. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. [Thomas Carlyle]
Quote: If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that. [Thomas Carlyle]