More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
No pressure, no diamonds.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.