More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
