For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. – Thomas Carlyle
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. – Thomas Carlyle
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. – Thomas Carlyle
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. – Thomas Carlyle
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. – Thomas Carlyle
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. – Thomas Carlyle
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle
The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. – Thomas Carlyle
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. – Thomas Carlyle
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. – Thomas Carlyle
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. – Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. – Thomas Carlyle
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. – Thomas Carlyle
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. – Thomas Carlyle
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. – Thomas Carlyle
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. – Thomas Carlyle
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle
Work alone is noble. – Thomas Carlyle
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – Thomas Carlyle
