Thomas Carlyle

“ביוגרפיה היא ההיסטוריה האמיתית היחידה.”

“אדם נחוש אף פעם אינו מאבד תקווה, ותמיד יש לו סיבה לקוות.”

“אדם בלי מטרה הוא כמו ספינה בלי הגה.”

“Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.”

“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”

“Happy the people whose annals are vacant.”

“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”

“A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.”

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

“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”

“Work alone is noble.”

“A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.”

“I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.”

“The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.”

“The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.”

“Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.”

“It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.”

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”