Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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. Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Let each become all that he was created capable of being. Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Necessity dispenseth with decorum. No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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