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• 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 are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Love is ever the beginning of knoweledge as fire is of light.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Goeth, Foreign Review, No. 111 (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...
• Too much of anything often leaves one with a feeling of regret.
• One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.
  All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests....
• The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion.
  He himself never knows it, much less do others....
• Is the opposite of the "Religious Right" the "Irreligious Wrong"?