About Thomas Carlyle: Thomas Carlyle is nothing but the biography of the Great Man".
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
