Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.