Quotes from Thomas Carlyle's books, and about them
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History on Heimskringla: “Snorro indeed, in the quietest manner, almost in a brief business style, writes down, in his _Heimskringla_, how Odin was a heroic Prince, in the Black-Sea region, with Twelve Peers, and a great people straitened for room.”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History on The Koran: “It was during these wild warfarings and strugglings, especially after the Flight to Mecca, that Mahomet dictated at intervals his Sacred Book, which they name _Koran_, or _Reading_, "Thing to be read."”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History on The Divine Comedy: “Dante's heart, long filled with this, brooding over it in speechless thought and awe, bursts forth at length into "mystic unfathomable song;" and this his _Divine Comedy_, the most remarkable of all modern Books, is the result.”
Sartor Resartus on The Spirit of the Laws: “"As Montesquieu wrote a Spirit of Laws," observes our Professor, "so could I write a Spirit of Clothes; thus, with an Esprit des Lois, properly an Esprit de Coutumes”