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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Thomas Carlyle

Breeding

Rights

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Thomas Carlyle

Genius

Infinite

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

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

Thomas Carlyle

Men

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

Conviction

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Thomas Carlyle

Work

First

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

Thomas Carlyle

Minority

Opinion

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Thomas Carlyle

Egotism

Faults

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

Being

Culture

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Thomas Carlyle

Health

Hope

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.