It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLEYou can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
THOMAS CARLYLEConviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
THOMAS CARLYLEDemocracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
THOMAS CARLYLESilence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLEShow me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLESilence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLEIf 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.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne monster there is in the world, the idle man.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
THOMAS CARLYLEIf Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
THOMAS CARLYLE