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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 27

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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in

Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

Heart, America, Python

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.496, Lulu.com

A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

Mother, Opportunity, Age

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Nuisance, Earth, Speech

Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

Heaven, Earth, Summit

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.262

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

Ease, Labor, Labour

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.90, CUP Archive

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

Work, Men, Majesty

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Littles, Virtue, Abstract

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.7

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

Loyalty, Spiritual, Teacher

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.11

The devil has his elect.

Devil

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Knowledge, Eye, Power

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

Mean, Heart, Order

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.50

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

Virtue, Said, Intellect

Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

Running, Men, Thinking

Thomas Carlyle (1834). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.191

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

War, Sea, Rude

1829 Signs of the Times.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Mind, Rise Above, Metaphysics

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.89, CUP Archive

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

Wise, Men, Looks

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

Nature, Essence, Breathing

Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!

Stars, Eye, Men

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

Bible, Jobs, Book

"On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History".

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Clothes, Looks, Hmmm

Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.65

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

Sweet, Jesus, Gentleman

Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

Men, Giving, Soul

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

Fire, Masters, Servant

Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.88

Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.

Men, Fire, Secret

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.75, Lulu.com

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

Fire, Demon, Invention

Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.52

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