More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.