In every man’s writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

“Goethe,” Foreign Review No. 3 (1828-08)
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Reviewing Goethe's Sämmtliche Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe Letzter Hand (1827). Reprinted in Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1845).