No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. – Thomas Carlyle
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. – Thomas Carlyle
He that can work is born to be king of something. – Thomas Carlyle
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. – Thomas Carlyle
The purpose of man is in action not thought. – Thomas Carlyle
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder — waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. – Thomas Carlyle
If there be no enemy theres no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. – Thomas Carlyle
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. – Thomas Carlyle
Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. – Thomas Carlyle
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. – Thomas Carlyle
The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one. – Thomas Carlyle
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. – Thomas Carlyle
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. – Thomas Carlyle
Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. – Thomas Carlyle
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand. – Thomas Carlyle
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. – Thomas Carlyle
