Thomas Carlyle

Quotes

• “(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made...”
• “True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in...”
• “If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he ha...”
• “What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all...”
• “All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”
• “My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)”
• “Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.”
• “Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
• “He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”
• “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”