Quotes from Thomas Carlyle

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

I want to meet my God awake.

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.