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Thomas Carlyle
1795 - 1881 *
Scottish historian and essayist, who famously argued that history is the biography of great men
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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 Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,--"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of--the air!" -- Richter. Edinburgh Review, 1827.
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. -- Life of Schiller.
Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood. -- Richter. State of German Literature. (1827.)
I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself. -- Letter to Goethe, 1828.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. -- 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. -- Goethe. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they? -- Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. -- Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps. -- Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
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." -- Voltaire. Foreign Review, 1829.
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