I know not whether this book is worth anything, nor what the world will do with it, or misdo, or entirely forbear to do, as is likeliest; but this I could tell the world: You have not had for a hundred years any book that comes more direct and flamingly from the heart of a living man. Do what you like with it, you—.
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Remarks to his wife after he had finished writing The French Revolution (12 January 1837), quoted in James Anthony Froude, Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834–1881, Vol. I (1884), p. 84