Carlyle

Famous quotes containing the word carlyle:

“My dear, if Mr. Carlyle’s digestion had been stronger, there is no saying what he might have been!”
—Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866)

“No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“If Carlyle does not take two steps in philosophy, are there any who take three?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)