"Carlyle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Carlyle kind of hero who could ever be put on a pedestal, or who would stay there if ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee
... aspiration for inspiration, may bring their capacities to a test, and give their powers a fair trial. If such a one fail, his endowment terminates, and there is no harm done. If he succeed, you may give power of flight to the genius of a Davy or a Faraday, a Carlyle or a Locke, whose influence on the future of his fellow-men shall ...
— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley
... feeling came forth with much point and humour on an occasion referred to in "Carlyle's Memoirs." In a company where John Home and David Hume were present, much wonder was expressed what could have induced a clerk belonging to Sir William Forbes' bank to abscond, and embezzle L900. "I know what it was," said Home to the historian; "for when he was ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... serviceable, dumb creatures; they change the grass into milk; they come ranking home at evening time."—CARLYLE. ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... ghost stories are usually of another type. The robust and earnest ghosts of our ancestors "had their own purpose sun-clear before them," as Mr. Carlyle would have said. They knew what they wanted, asked for it, and ...
— The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • Andrew Lang
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