Carlyle

Famous quotes containing the word carlyle:

“Writing is a dreadful Labour, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: “Byron is dead!””
—Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866)

“The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
—Thomas Carlyle “(1795–1881)