Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. Votes: 3
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Votes: 1
All great peoples are conservative. Votes: 0
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Votes: 0
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. Votes: 0
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. Votes: 0
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. Votes: 0
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. Votes: 0
Leaders: Captains of industry. Votes: 0
Necessity dispenseth with decorum. Votes: 0
No pressure, no diamonds. Votes: 0
Silence is more eloquent than words. Votes: 0
Endurance is patience concentrated. Votes: 0
No violent extreme endures. Votes: 0
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. Votes: 0
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore! Votes: 0
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. Votes: 0
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Votes: 0
May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books. Votes: 0
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. Votes: 0
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. Votes: 0
Endurance is patience concentrated Votes: 0
Biography is the only true history Votes: 0
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. Votes: 0
Worship is transcendent wonder. Votes: 0
My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817) Votes: 0
Speech is silver, silence is golden. Votes: 0
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. Votes: 0
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. Votes: 0
Man is a tool-using animal. Votes: 0
Variety is the condition of harmony. Votes: 0
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. Votes: 0
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something. Votes: 0
It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. Votes: 0
History, a distillation of rumour. Votes: 0
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. Votes: 0
A man lives by believing something. Votes: 0
A man perfects himself by working. Votes: 0
A man's perfection is his work. Votes: 0
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered. Votes: 0
A noble book! all men's book! Votes: 0
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering. Votes: 0
All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous. Votes: 0
All true work is sacred. Votes: 0
Be not a slave of words. Votes: 0
Biography is the only true history. Votes: 0
Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe . Votes: 0
Custom doth make dotards of us all. Votes: 0
Debt is a bottomless sea. Votes: 0
Fame is no sure test of merit. Votes: 0
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity. Votes: 0
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? Votes: 0
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. Votes: 0
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. Votes: 0
He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever. Votes: 0
History is a great dust heap. Votes: 0
History is the new poetry. Votes: 0
History: A distillation of rumor. Votes: 0
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. Votes: 0
I want to meet my God awake. Votes: 0
Is not light grander than fire? Votes: 0
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments. Votes: 0
Laughter means sympathy. Votes: 0
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist. Votes: 0
Lies exist only to be extinguished. Votes: 0
Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords? Votes: 0
Love not Pleasure; love God. Votes: 0
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ... Votes: 0
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. Votes: 0
Nature admits no lie. Votes: 0
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish. Votes: 0
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state. Votes: 0
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. Votes: 0
Rest is for the dead. Votes: 0
Silence is the eternal duty of man. Votes: 0
Society is founded on hero-worship. Votes: 0
Society is founded upon Cloth; Votes: 0
Song is the heroics of speech. Votes: 0
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. Votes: 0
The actual well seen is ideal. Votes: 0
The age of miracles is forever here. Votes: 0
The archenemy is the arch stupid! Votes: 0
The devil has his elect. Votes: 0
The end of man is action. Votes: 0
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence. Votes: 0
The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." Votes: 0
The king is the man who can. Votes: 0
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind. Votes: 0
The mathematics of high achievement Votes: 0
Thirty millions, mostly fools. Votes: 0
Thought is the parent of the deed. Votes: 0
Time has only a relative existence. Votes: 0
Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself. Votes: 0
Violence does even justice unjustly. Votes: 0
We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal. Votes: 0
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. Votes: 0
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by. Votes: 0
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God. Votes: 0
Wonder is the basis of worship. Votes: 0