Thomas Carlyle

Work alone is noble…

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made…

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone…

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

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge…

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough…

In books lies the soul of the whole past time…

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A…

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am…

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

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics…

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time…

All great peoples are conservative…

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better…

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight…