About Thomas Carlyle: Thomas Carlyle is nothing but the biography of the Great Man".
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
