Carlyle quotes

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

- Samuel Butler
  Letter to Miss E M  A Savage, 21 Nov.

What shall we do without you? Think where we are. Carlyle has led us all out into the desert, and he has left us there.

- Arthur Hugh Clough
  Parting words to Ralph Waldo Emerson,15  Jul. Quoted in E E Hale James Russell Lowell and His Friends (1898), ch.9.

Nearly all our best men are dead! Carlyle,Tennyson, Browning,George Eliot!I'm not feeling very well myself.

-Punch