Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

Work alone is noble. >>

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. >>

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. >>

Quotations about Morality

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. >>

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desi >>

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep peopl >>

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Carlyle, Thomas