Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

#Culture

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become...

#Duty

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

#Silence, #Speech

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no...

#Foolishness

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

#Habit

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other...

#Heroism

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

#History

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

#History

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

#Idleness

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

#Imagination

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but...

#Laughter

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

#Literature