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Thomas Carlyle
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Thomas Carlyle
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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Thomas Carlyle
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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Thomas Carlyle
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
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Thomas Carlyle
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Thomas Carlyle
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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