There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Had Johnson left us nothing but his Dictionary, we might have traced there a great intellect, a genuine man.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
If hen-stealing prevail to a plainly unendurable extent, will you station police-officers on every hen-roost; and keep them watching and cruising incessantly to and fro over the parish, in the unwholesome dark, at enormous expense, with almost no effect? Or will you not try rather to discover where the fox’s den is, and kill the […]
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
