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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
«I lead a most dyspeptic, solitary, self-shrouded life: consuming, if possible in silence, my considerable daily allotment of pain.»
«If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.»
«Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all.»
«Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.»
«A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.»
«What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?»
«Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~»
«War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.»
«A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-looking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him. . . as I have ever seen in any man.»
«The man who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye»