More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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.
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.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
