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• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats other men. -- Thomas Carlyle
• One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• 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.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• 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.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as a Man of Lette...
• 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.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Voltaire, Foreign Review, 1829...
• Do you think the State or any other institution should do more for writers?
  The State should do no more for writers than it should do for any other person who lives in it....
• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
  -- Thomas Carlyle...