Thomas Carlyle

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

 Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and more pleasant creature does not exist.

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

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.