Thomas Carlyle

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.

The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.

Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Speech is silvern silence is golden.

Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.

Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.

Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Every noble crown is and on Earth will forever be a crown of thorns.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Of all the paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path ... a thing which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.

His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.