Thomas Carlyle

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Thomas Carlyle

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

Thomas Carlyle

Professors of the dismal science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

Thomas Carlyle

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Thomas Carlyle

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!

Thomas Carlyle

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Thomas Carlyle

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Thomas Carlyle

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

Thomas Carlyle

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

Thomas Carlyle

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Thomas Carlyle