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• His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle
• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats other men. -- Thomas Carlyle
• Sweat is the mortal enemy of modern civilization.
• Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Life of Frederick the Great, Book xvi, Chap. i...
• It is well to observe the force and virtue and consequence of discoverie
  and these are to be seen nowhere more conspicuously than in those three which were unknown to the ancients, and of which the origin, though recent, is obscure and ingloriou...
• One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)