Thomas Carlyle
  • Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.

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

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

  • Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

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