Carlyle Quotes

“The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region of the ideal. With the Master of Balliol, we believe that 'no English writer has done more to elevate and purify our ideas of life and to make us conscious that the things of the spirit are real, and that in the last resort there is no other reality.”
― Hector Carsewell Macpherson, Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series

“In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. Johnson and Carlyle used such a type, but remember, an ordinary mortal cannot wield the sledge hammer of a giant. Johnson and Carlyle were intellectual giants and few can hope to stand on the same literary pedestal.”
― Joseph Devlin, How To Speak And Write Correctly

“The eyes cannot hide from those that look deep within the corporate body.”
― Anthony T. Hincks