Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

— Thomas Carlyle

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

— Thomas Carlyle

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

— Thomas Carlyle

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

— Thomas Carlyle

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.

— Thomas Carlyle

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

— Thomas Carlyle

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

— Thomas Carlyle

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

— Thomas Carlyle

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.

— Thomas Carlyle