Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – Thomas Carlyle
The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not…. – Thomas Carlyle
Little dew-drops of celestial melody. – Thomas Carlyle
Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. – Thomas Carlyle
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. – Thomas Carlyle
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. – Thomas Carlyle
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. – Thomas Carlyle
Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once. – Thomas Carlyle
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! – Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. – Thomas Carlyle
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. – Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. – Thomas Carlyle
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. – Thomas Carlyle
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. – Thomas Carlyle
Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! – Thomas Carlyle
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. – Thomas Carlyle
