Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Life Quotes, Questioning Quotes

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism,...

Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism,...

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to...

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to...

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

All great peoples are conservative.

All great peoples are conservative.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we...

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we...

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...