Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLEI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
THOMAS CARLYLESilence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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 CARLYLEThe past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLENo iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
THOMAS CARLYLEMusic is well said to be the speech of angels.
THOMAS CARLYLEEvery day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
THOMAS CARLYLENo man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLEIn every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are remedies for all things but death.
THOMAS CARLYLEJust in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
THOMAS CARLYLE