Thomas Carlyle

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. 

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

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

No pressure, no diamonds. 

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. 

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. 

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. 

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. 

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. 

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. 

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. 

Every noble work is at first impossible. 

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. 

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. 

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. 

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. 

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. 

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. 

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.