Quotes from Thomas Carlyle

Love not Pleasure; love God.

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

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.