Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Country

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The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed

The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

Thomas Carlyle

Country, Spiritual, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.23

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

Thomas Carlyle

Country, Moving, Men

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.638, Lulu.com

What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

Thomas Carlyle

Country, Men, Needs

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

Thomas Carlyle

Country, Comfort, Vote

Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.

Thomas Carlyle

Country, Thinking, Air

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.5