Quotes from Thomas Carlyle

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith

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

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.