Thomas Carlyle

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Thomas Carlyle

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

Thomas Carlyle

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Thomas Carlyle

Thought will not work except in silence.

Thomas Carlyle

Time has only a relative existence.

Thomas Carlyle

To men in their sleep there is nothing granted in this world.

Thomas Carlyle

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Variety is the condition of harmony.

Thomas Carlyle

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

Thomas Carlyle