"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
― Thomas Carlyle
Topic(s):
Freedom
More From Thomas Carlyle
- "Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."
- "If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."
- "The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
More In Freedom
- "The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time."― William Hague
- "I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the ‘message,’ even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form."― Isabel Allende
- "The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."― Billy Graham