Quotes by Carlyle Thomas
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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.
Be not a slave of words.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
