Inspiring Quotes by Thomas Carlyle - Page 3

"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects"

"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another"

"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong"

"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad"

"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve"

"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope"

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world"

"Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness"

"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five"

"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt"

"If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded"