Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

History, a distillation of rumour.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.