A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

— Thomas Carlyle

Be not a slave of words.

— Thomas Carlyle

Biography is the only true history.

— Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.

— Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work, or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

— Thomas Carlyle

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

— Thomas Carlyle

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

— Thomas Carlyle

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

— Thomas Carlyle

Debt is a bottomless sea.

— Thomas Carlyle

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

— Thomas Carlyle