Thomas Carlyle

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

Thomas Carlyle

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Thomas Carlyle

We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.

Thomas Carlyle

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Thomas Carlyle

Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.

Thomas Carlyle

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

Thomas Carlyle

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.

Thomas Carlyle

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

Thomas Carlyle

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Thomas Carlyle

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

Thomas Carlyle