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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 21

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Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay,

Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

Men, Law, Smoking

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1903). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great”

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine.

Life, Heaven, Chance

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.473

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

Fall, Men, Doe

Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Carlyle (1904). “New letters of Thomas Carlyle”

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

Heart, Men, Hands

1829 Signs of the Times.

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Stories, Caution, Prudence

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

Inspirational, Clever, Men

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.278

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

Mean, Reality, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.131

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Emptiness, Empty, Loud

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

Fashion, Men, Clothes

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

Men, Higher, Blessedness

Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.132

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

Real, Unseen, Speech

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

History after all is the true poetry.

Art, Philosophy, History

Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2005). “The French Revolution”, p.13, Courier Corporation

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

Lying, Atmosphere, Pestilence

As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.

Islamic, Mean, Becoming

The mathematics of high achievement

Achievement, Mathematics

But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.

Lying, Two, Dwelling

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.304, CUP Archive

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Eternity, Earnestness

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

Miracle, Mystery, Arcs

O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.

Art, Book, Writing

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

Prayer, Men, Soul

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

Ministers, Benevolence

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.3

A noble book! all men's book!

Bible, Book, Men

Thomas Carlyle (2010). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

Evil, Wicked, Alive

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.

Views, Firsts, Faults

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

Life, Success, Work

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.123, Univ of California Press

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