Quotes by : Thomas Carlyle

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge,....

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys....