Thomas Carlyle

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion…

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not…

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope…

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography…

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall…

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished…

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all…

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief…

If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere…

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious…

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to…

History, a distillation of rumour…

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will…

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite…

Every noble work is at first impossible…