Thomas Carlyle

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy, excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Thomas Carlyle

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

Thomas Carlyle

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Thomas Carlyle

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

Thomas Carlyle

A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

Thomas Carlyle

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Thomas Carlyle

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

Thomas Carlyle

All comes out even at the end of the day.

Thomas Carlyle

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

Thomas Carlyle

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Thomas Carlyle