Thomas Carlyle

(582 votes)   Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(518 votes)   By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(500 votes)   The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(412 votes)   Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(411 votes)   Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(373 votes)   A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(338 votes)   Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(270 votes)   The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(254 votes)   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
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(237 votes)   He that can work is born to be king of something.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(236 votes)   No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(234 votes)   If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(233 votes)   No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(222 votes)   A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(212 votes)   In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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