Thomas Carlyle

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.

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

Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.

Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

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

Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?

Man is a tool-using animal.

We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God.

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.