Thomas Carlyle

“Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.”

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”

“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”

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

“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?”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to ru...”

“No violent extreme endures.”

“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.”

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.”

“The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.”

“A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.”

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”

“He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.”

“The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.”

“No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.”

“A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.”

“Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.”

“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”

“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”