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• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany.
  The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,--imported by Madame de Stael, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,--"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land...
• Love is ever the beginning of knoweledge as fire is of light.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Goeth, Foreign Review, No. 111 (1828)...
• Literary men are... a perpetual priesthood.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- State of German Literature, Edinburgh Review, 1827...
• We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Voltaire, Foreign Review, 1829...
• We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversio
  or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration....