Datum narození: 4. prosinec 1795
Datum úmrtí: 5. únor 1881
Další jména: Томас Карлайл
Thomas Carlyle byl skotský spisovatel a historik, jehož dílo velmi ovlivnilo britskou viktoriánskou literaturu.
Originál: (en) If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify Him; they would ask Him to dinner, and hear what He had to say, and make fun of it!
Zdroj: [Macmillan's magazine, Svazek 50, 1884, 284, anglicky]
Originál: (en) Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Originál: (en) No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Originál: (en) Every noble work is at first impossible.
Zdroj: [Carlyle, Thomas, Past and present, Chapman and Hall, 1870, 247, anglicky]
