Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

Leaders: Captains of industry.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.