Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLEPopular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhat 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 CARLYLEThe soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLESilence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are remedies for all things but death.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
THOMAS CARLYLEEvery noble work is at first impossible.
THOMAS CARLYLENo pressure, no diamonds.
THOMAS CARLYLEI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLENo man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
THOMAS CARLYLE