Thomas Carlyle Essence Quotations

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.