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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

«Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be»
«Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.»
«The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.»
«Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will»
«Wonder is the basis of worship»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Wonder | Keywords: worship
«I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.»
«What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us»
«Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.»
«Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Silence | Keywords: for anything, shallow
«Endurance is patience concentrated.»

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