writer, essayist, historian
and teacher during the Victorian era
.
He called economics
"the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia
, and became a controversial social commentator.
Coming from a strict Calvinist
family, Carlyle was expected to become a preacher by his parents, but while at the University of Edinburgh
, he lost his Christian faith. Calvinist values, however, remained with him throughout his life.
Not all his men may sever this, It yields to friends', not monarchs', calls;My whinstone house my castle is— I have my own four walls.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.