More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.