Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is n >>

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s. >>

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. >>

Quotations about Biography

Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are >>

For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It >>

Anyone who profits from the experience of others probably writes biogr >>

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

Carlyle, Thomas