Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas Carlyle

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Thomas Carlyle

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle

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

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

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas Carlyle

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas Carlyle

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