Creative Quotations from Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Thomas Carlyle
(1795-1881) born on Dec 04

Scottish "essayist, historian". "He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote "The French Revolution," 1837."

"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man."

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

"'Do the duty that lies nearest thee', which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer."

A crowd has the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	'Past and Present'
R:	"Speech made in support of the London Library. Carlyle and the London Library," (F. Harrison)"
A:	""On Heroes and Hero-Worship," Lecture 5, " The Hero as a Man of Letters," 1841."
N:	"Sartor Resartus, Bk ii. Ch. 9"
K:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."