Thomas Carlyle Foolish Quotations

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.