There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but it is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. Thomas Carlyle Next Quote Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules. - Thomas Carlyle Previous Quote The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it. - Thomas Carlyle