Thomas Carlyle

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle…

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to…

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this…

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we…

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of…

Music is well said to be the speech of angels…

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything…

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and…

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no…

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard…

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to…

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get…

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can…

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom…

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world…