What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Imagination Quotes, Love Quotes, Memory Quotes

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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

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

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it...

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it...

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which...

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which...

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that...

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that...

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself

Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes...

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes...

Biography is the only true history

Biography is the only true history

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the...

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the...

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It...

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It...