Quotes by Carlyle Thomas
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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 you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
