No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase “the dismal science” to describe economics, which he believed focused too much on the material aspects of life and not enough on the moral and spiritual dimensions.
- Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.
- There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
- Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.