Carlyle without his paradoxes and prejudices, his impetuous temper and his unbridled tongue would be only half himself.

If he were known only through his books, the world would have missed acquaintance with letters of singular beauty, and with the most humourous talker of his age.

He was one of two men, Newman being the other, whose influence Froude felt through life, and the influence of Newman was chiefly upon his style.

Of Newman indeed he saw very little after he left Oxford, though his admiration and reverence for him never abated.

It was not until he came to live in London after the death of his first wife that he grew really intimate with Carlyle.