Thomas Carlyle

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Przeciwności losu czasami są ciężkie dla człowieka, ale na jednego człowieka, który może wytrzymać pomyślność, jest setka, którzy przetrwają przeciwności.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for the one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred who will stand adversity.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.

Genius (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

Historia jest esencją niezliczonych biografii.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Natura nie dopuszcza kłamstw. (Natura nie kłamie)

Nature admits no lie.

Żaden wielki człowiek nie żyje na próżno. Historia świata jest niczym innym jak biografiami wielkich ludzi.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

The true University of these days is a collection of books.

Najlepszym dowodem prawdziwej wielkości człowieka jest przeświadczenie o własnej małości.

Wytrwałość jest skoncentrowaną cierpliwością.

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

Nature admits no lie.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. --from Chartism,(1839)

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.