Thomas Carlyle

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

Thomas Carlyle

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

Thomas Carlyle

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

Thomas Carlyle

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

Thomas Carlyle

Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Thomas Carlyle

Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.

Thomas Carlyle

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Thomas Carlyle

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

The age of miracles is forever here.

Thomas Carlyle

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

Thomas Carlyle