About Thomas Carlyle: Thomas Carlyle is nothing but the biography of the Great Man".
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
