Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

- 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.

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

- Thomas Carlyle

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.

- Thomas Carlyle

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

- Thomas Carlyle

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

- Thomas Carlyle

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

- Thomas Carlyle

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.

- Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

- Thomas Carlyle

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

- Thomas Carlyle

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

- Thomas Carlyle

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

- Thomas Carlyle

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

- Thomas Carlyle

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

- Thomas Carlyle

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

- Thomas Carlyle

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

- Thomas Carlyle

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

- Thomas Carlyle

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

- Thomas Carlyle

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

- Thomas Carlyle