If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. – Thomas Carlyle
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. – Thomas Carlyle
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. – Thomas Carlyle
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. – Thomas Carlyle
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. – Thomas Carlyle
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. – Thomas Carlyle
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. – Thomas Carlyle
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. – Thomas Carlyle
History, a distillation of rumour. – Thomas Carlyle
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. – Thomas Carlyle
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. – Thomas Carlyle
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. – Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. – Thomas Carlyle
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle
All great peoples are conservative. – Thomas Carlyle
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government. – Thomas Carlyle
