Thomas Carlyle Quote

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.


Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished (ed. 1857)


He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be...

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be...

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be...

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be...