John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5978 Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5978 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) |
| QUOTATION: | To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents,—the tools to him that can handle them. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
| Note 1. Carlyle in his essay on Mirabeau, 1837, quotes this from a “New England book.” [back] |