Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas Carlyle

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
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

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
Thomas Carlyle

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Thomas Carlyle

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle

History, a distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas Carlyle