John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5979 Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5979 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) |
| QUOTATION: | Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |