Thomas Carlyle

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

History a distillation of rumor

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The end of man is action.

The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.

Give me a man who sings at his work.

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.