4 Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Legacy

Thomas Carlyle quotes on legacy

14. A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

33. It can be said of him [Scott], when he departed he took a man's life along with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of time.

34. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

82. In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.