The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle 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. Thomas Carlyle demand made men Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. Thomas Carlyle tests may men It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. Thomas Carlyle lucky names attitude Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. Thomas Carlyle intellectual doubt mean He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing. Thomas Carlyle army kings art My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. Thomas Carlyle wall house home I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity. Thomas Carlyle no-patience gorillas humanity In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men. Thomas Carlyle heart appreciation men Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. Thomas Carlyle machines liberty government Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will. Thomas Carlyle freedom light two 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. Thomas Carlyle cute happiness love Violence does even justice unjustly. Thomas Carlyle violence doe justice No violent extreme endures. Thomas Carlyle endure violent violence No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. Thomas Carlyle athlete integrity sports He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech. Thomas Carlyle unseen speech real Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise! Thomas Carlyle destiny stars beautiful All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle education book school Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man? Thomas Carlyle earth names men Earnestness alone makes life eternity. Thomas Carlyle earnestness eternity The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. Thomas Carlyle wicked time past
