Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest.