Carlyle, Thomas - Letter (1822-03-15) to John Carlyle | WIST Quotations

The last quality, perseverance, I particularly respect: it is the very hinge of all virtues. -- On looking over the world, the cause of nine parts in ten of the lamentable failures which occur in men's undertakings & darken and degrade so much of their history, lies not in the…

Carlyle, Thomas - Letter (1836-04-29) to Ralph Waldo Emerson | WIST Quotations

I grow daily to honor Facts more and more, and Theory less and less.

Carlyle, Thomas - Journal (1870-06-23) | WIST Quotations

The beginning of all is to have done with Falsity -- to eschew Falsity as Death Eternal.

Carlyle, Thomas - Speech (1866-04-02), "On the Choice of Books," Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University of Edinburgh | WIST Quotations

For if a good speaker -- an eloquent speaker -- is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Often rendered: "Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?" Regarding oration/declamation as an academic subject,…

Carlyle, Thomas - Speech (1866-04-02), "On the Choice of Books," Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University of Edinburgh | WIST Quotations

If you find many people who are hard and indifferent to you in a world that you consider to be unhospitable and cruel -- as often, indeed, happens to a tender-hearted, stirring young creature -- you will also find there are noble hearts who will look kindly on you, and…

Carlyle, Thomas - Lecture (1840-05-22), "The Hero as King," Home House, Portman Square, London | WIST Quotations

Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped. The lecture notes were collected by Carlyle into On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History, Lecture 6 (1841).

Carlyle, Thomas - Lecture (1840-05-22), "The Hero as King," Home House, Portman Square, London | WIST Quotations

Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see. The lecture…

Bot Verification

Carlyle, Thomas - Lecture (1840-05-19), "The Hero as Man of Letters," Home House, Portman Square, London | WIST Quotations

For the Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. The lecture notes were collected by Carlyle into On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the…

Carlyle, Thomas - Lecture (1840-05-15), "The Hero as Priest," Home House, Portman Square, London | WIST Quotations

Is not every true Reformer, by the nature of him, a Priest first of all? He appeals to Heaven's invisible justice against Earth's visible force; knows that it, the invisible, is strong and alone strong. He is a believer in the divine truth of things; a seer, seeing through the…