1. Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle - “Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has 'cast up' in my time — this art by which even the 'poor' can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.”

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2. Jane Welsh Carlyle - “When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.”

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3. Jane Welsh Carlyle - “The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”

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4. Jane Welsh Carlyle - “It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.”

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5. Jane Welsh Carlyle - “The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.”

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6. Thomas Carlyle - “Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”

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7. Thomas Carlyle - “Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

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8. Thomas Carlyle - “One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.”

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9. Thomas Carlyle - “Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite.”

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10. Thomas Carlyle - “France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.”

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11. Thomas Carlyle - “Man is a tool-using animal.”

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12. Thomas Carlyle - “A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.”

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13. Thomas Carlyle - “A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”

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14. 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.”

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15. Thomas Carlyle - “It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.”

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16. Thomas Carlyle - “Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, But what we do.”

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17. Thomas Carlyle - “Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill.”

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18. Thomas Carlyle - “Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat...Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!”

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19. Thomas Carlyle - “Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.”

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20. Thomas Carlyle - “The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.”

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21. Thomas Carlyle - “The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”

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22. Thomas Carlyle - “The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.”

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23. Thomas Carlyle - “The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.”

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24. Thomas Carlyle - “This world, after all our science and sciences, is still A miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

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25. Thomas Carlyle - “So here hath been dawning another blue day: Think, wilt thou let it slip useless away? Out of eternity this new day is born; Into eternity at night 'twill return.”

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