Thomas Carlyle

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

Thomas Carlyle

A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

Thomas Carlyle

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Thomas Carlyle

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

Thomas Carlyle

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

Thomas Carlyle

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

Thomas Carlyle

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

Thomas Carlyle

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Thomas Carlyle

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

Thomas Carlyle