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• A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, 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...
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• 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...
• Literary men are... a perpetual priesthood.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- State of German Literature, Edinburgh Review, 1827...
• Love is ever the beginning of knoweledge as fire is of light.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Goeth, Foreign Review, No. 111 (1828)...
• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)...
• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. -- Thomas Carlyle
• 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....