328 quotes
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
Cash Payment the sole nexus; and there are so many things which cash will not pay!
Chartism (1840)
"The people may eat grass": hasty words, which fly abroad irrevocable—and will send back tidings.
The French Revolution. A History (1837)
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
Past and Present (1843)
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.
Chartism (1840)
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
Heroes and Hero Worship (1840)
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
The French Revolution. A History (1837)
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it.
Sartor Resartus (1833)
Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest.
Sartor Resartus (1833)
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
If Hero mean sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)
The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do.
The French Revolution. A History (1837)
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Past and Present (1843)
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something.
The life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an examination of his works (1825)
A man's honest, earnest opinion is the most precious of all he possesses: let him communicate this, if he is to communicate anything.
But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME.
Sartor Resartus (1833)
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
The French Revolution. A History (1837)