Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest >>

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and decepti >>

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is >>

Quotations about History and Historians

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from pas >>

The history of the world is but the biography of great men. >>

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, t >>

History is the distillation of rumor.

Carlyle, Thomas