01c. 1838 ADHow noiseless is thought! No rolling of drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable tumult of baggage-waggons, attends its movements; in what obscure and sequestered places may the head be meditating which is one day to be crowned with more than imperial authority; for kings and emperors will be among its ministering servants; it will rule not over, but in all heads, and bend the world to its will.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
02c. 1838 ADHow paint to the sensual eye what passes in the holy-of-holies of man's soul; in what words, known to these profane times, speak even afar-off of the unspeakable?Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
03c. 1838 ADHow shall he give kindling in whose inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder?Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
04c. 1838 ADHow were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true, otherwise impossible; except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
05c. 1838 ADHuman creatures will not go quite accurately together, any more than clocks will.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
06c. 1838 ADHuman intellect, if you consider it well, is the exact summary of human worth.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
07c. 1838 ADHumour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
08c. 1838 ADHumour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
09c. 1838 ADHumour is properly the exponent of low things; that which first renders them poetical to the mind.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
10c. 1838 ADI have no notion of a truly great man that could not be all sorts of men.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
11c. 1838 ADI never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
12c. 1838 ADIdeals can never be completely embodied in practice; and yet ideals exist, and if they be not approximated to at all, the whole matter goes to wreck.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
13c. 1838 ADIf a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
14c. 1838 ADIf a noble soul is rendered tenfold beautifuller by victory and prosperity, an ignoble one is rendered tenfold and a hundredfold uglier, pitifuller.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
15c. 1838 ADIf in youth the universe is majestically unveiling, and everywhere heaven revealing itself on earth, nowhere to the young man does this heaven on earth so immediately reveal itself as in the young maiden.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
16c. 1838 ADIf it is disgraceful to be beaten, it is only a shade less disgraceful to have so much as fought.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
17c. 1838 ADIf Nature is one and a living indivisible whole, much more is mankind, the image that reflects and creates Nature, without which Nature were not.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
18c. 1838 ADIf new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
19c. 1838 ADIf one sees one's fellow-creature following damnable error, by continuing in which the devil is sure to get him at last, are you to let him go towards such consummation, or are you not rather to use all means to save him?Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
20c. 1838 ADIf the paternal cottage still shuts us in, its roof still screens us; and with a father we have as yet a prophet, priest, and king, and an obedience that makes us free.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
21c. 1838 ADIf there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
22c. 1838 ADIf we do not now reckon a great man literally divine, it is that our notions of the divine are ever rising higher; not altogether that our reverence for the divine, as manifested in our like, is getting lower.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
23c. 1838 ADIf "wise memory" is ever to prevail, there is need of much "wise oblivion" first.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
24c. 1838 ADImagination is but a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
