John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5980 Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5980 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) |
| QUOTATION: | The uttered part of a man’s life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |