Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Thomas Carlyle

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

Thomas Carlyle

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

Thomas Carlyle

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Thomas Carlyle

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Thomas Carlyle

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

Thomas Carlyle

Creation is great, and cannot be understood.

Thomas Carlyle

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Thomas Carlyle