Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
The true Church of England at this moment lies in the editors of its newspapers. These preach to the people, daily, weekly.
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Nature alone is antique and the oldest art a mushroom.
A poor, hard-toiling, ill-provided man; careless of what vulgar men toil for. Not a bad man, I should say; Something better in him than hunger of any sort, – or these wild Arab men, fighting and jostling three-and-twenty years at his hand, in close contact with him always, would not revered him so!… They called […]
These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, – is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like […]
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is. Set down in Ireland, one might at least feel, ‘Here is thy problem: In God’s name what wilt thou do with it?’
Sure enough, America is a great, and in many respects a blessed and hopeful phenomenon. Sure enough, these hardy millions of Anglo-Saxon men prove themselves worthy of their genealogy… But as to a Model Republic, or a model anything, the wise among themselves know too well that there is nothing to be said… Their constitution, […]
Every noble work is at first impossible.
