Thomas Carlyle

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician’s aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

Thomas Carlyle

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Thomas Carlyle

The king is the man who can.

Thomas Carlyle

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

Thomas Carlyle

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Thomas Carlyle

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Thomas Carlyle

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.

Thomas Carlyle

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Thomas Carlyle

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

Thomas Carlyle