The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas Carlyle

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Thomas Carlyle

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Thomas Carlyle

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Thomas Carlyle

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas Carlyle

Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle