More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
