More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
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.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
