Thomas Carlyle, n.All

Thomas Carlyle is, at bottom, simply an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.

Thomas Carlyle is a poet to whom nature has denied the faculty of verse.

Thomas Carlyle is constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faith as well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it.

Thomas Carlyle is pessimism as a poorly digested dinner.

Thomas Carlyle is a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetor from need, constantly lured by the craving for a strong faith and the feeling of his incapacity for it (in this respect, a typical romantic!).