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Quotations By Thomas Carlyle


Age
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Diligence
Every noble work is at first impossible.

Endurance
Endurance is patience concentrated.

Enthusiasm
The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.

Fun
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Hope
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Humor
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Laughter
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. -- Thomas Carlyle

Life
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. -- Thomas Carlyle

Necessity
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. -- Thomas Carlyle

Silence
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Spirituality
Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

Vision
The eye sees what it brings the power to see. -- Thomas Carlyle

Work
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green

Work
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.