Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Thomas Carlyle

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Thomas Carlyle

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

Thomas Carlyle

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

Thomas Carlyle

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Thomas Carlyle

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

Thomas Carlyle

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Thomas Carlyle

I want to meet my God awake.

Thomas Carlyle

Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.

Thomas Carlyle

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Thomas Carlyle