“ Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest. Thomas Carlyle
“ Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. Thomas Carlyle
“ Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful:… Thomas Carlyle
“ A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes. Thomas Carlyle
“ Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Not W… Thomas Carlyle
“ Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand prin… Thomas Carlyle
“ Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Di… Thomas Carlyle
“ Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so th… Thomas Carlyle
“ The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. Thomas Carlyle
“ If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. Thomas Carlyle
