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.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
-
-
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Endurance is patience concentrated.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
A man lives by believing something.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE






