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.]
Thomas CarlyleRightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
Thomas CarlyleOf a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Thomas CarlyleA fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.
Thomas Carlyle