No pressure, no diamonds.
THOMAS CARLYLENo pressure, no diamonds.
THOMAS CARLYLEHe who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
THOMAS CARLYLEFoolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLEExperience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne monster there is in the world, the idle man.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
THOMAS CARLYLEYou can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
THOMAS CARLYLEDo nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLEMake yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLEOld age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
THOMAS CARLYLEShow me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
THOMAS CARLYLE