Thomas Carlyle

All great peoples are conservative.

Thomas Carlyle

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

Thomas Carlyle

All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Thomas Carlyle

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

Thomas Carlyle

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Thomas Carlyle

Be not a slave of words.

Thomas Carlyle

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

Thomas Carlyle

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

Thomas Carlyle

Biography is the only true history.

Thomas Carlyle

Blessed be the God’s voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

Thomas Carlyle