Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas CarlyleAt worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
Thomas CarlyleSpeech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
Thomas CarlyleIf those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
Thomas CarlyleA pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
Thomas CarlyleIt is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Thomas Carlyle