Quotes from Thomas Carlyle

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

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

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.