History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.Thomas Carlyle
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?Thomas Carlyle
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.Thomas Carlyle
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.Thomas Carlyle
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.Thomas Carlyle
In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people, with their wisdom and unwisdom.Thomas Carlyle
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.Thomas Carlyle
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.Thomas Carlyle
