Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

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.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.