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• There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)...
• What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom? -- Thomas Carlyle
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
  -- Thomas Carlyle...
• A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly.
  If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. -- Thomas Carlyle, looking at the sta...
• 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)
• The universe is but one vast Symbol of God. -- Thomas Carlyle