Thomas Carlyle

“Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.”

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

“Endurance is patience concentrated.”

“Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.”

“Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.”

“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”

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

“If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.”

“Necessity dispenseth with decorum.”

“Thought is the parent of the deed.”

“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, s...”

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

“A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.”

“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.”

“No pressure, no diamonds.”

“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”

“The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.”

“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”

“Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.”