01c. 1838 ADExcept 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!"Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
04c. 1838 ADWe 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1838 ADHow does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
06c. 1838 ADA poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
07c. 1838 ADHis religion at best is an anxious wish,—like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
08c. 1838 ADWe 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1838 ADWe must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
10c. 1838 ADThere is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
12c. 1838 ADTo the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents,—the tools to him that can handle them.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
13c. 1838 ADBlessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
14c. 1838 ADThe uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
16c. 1838 ADIt can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
17c. 1838 ADThe eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
19c. 1838 ADAs the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,—"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
20c. 1838 ADThe greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
21c. 1838 ADIn 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 / quote ↗
24c. 1838 ADAdversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
