Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.

Give me a man who sings at his work.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.

The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.

The end of man is action.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.

History a distillation of rumor

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldnt live under Niagara.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.