"Carlyle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the world, knowing each other's interests, do not invade each other. They have learned that they can gain much more by international arbitration of disputes than by war and conquest. Indeed, as Carlyle said, "War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village; stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts ...
— Anarchism and Other Essays • Emma Goldman
... Battle of the, date of; various estimates of troops engaged; position of forces; anecdotes of; described by Carlyle; flight ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... Carlyle said "of all plants the Cabbage grows fastest to completion." His parable of the oak and the Cabbage conveys the lesson that those things which are most richly endowed when they come to perfection, are the slowest ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... is a vivid and entertaining mediator between Carlyle and commonplace. In his younger days and writings he mediated between his master and commonplace radicalism,—representing the great Scot's antagonism to existing institutions, his sympathy with man as man, and his hope of a more human society, but representing ...
— Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... were journalist deputies in the first year of the French Republic. Gorsas was the first of the deputies who died on the scaffold. Carlyle thus refers to them, and to the "hundred other names forgotten now," in his 'French Revolution' (vol. iii. ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth
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