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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

«No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Men | Keywords: littleness
«Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit toge»
«No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.»
«To a shower of gold most things are penetrable»
«I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.»
«It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.»
«To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.»
«No age seemed the age of romance to itself.»
«It is not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.»
«He that can work is born to be king of something.»