Quote #18
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
More from Thomas Carlyle
- Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood.
- A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
- The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
- Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
- : with what scientific stoicism he walks through the land of wonders, unwondering :
- A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
- Aesop's Fly, sitting on the axle of the chariot, has been much laughed at for exclaiming: What a dust I do raise!