be not thou a quack

"And rude will the settlement be: of wrath laid up against the day of wrath. O my Brother, be not thou a Quack! Die rather, if thou wilt take counsel; 'tis but dying once, and thou art quit of it for ever. Cursed is that trade; and bears curses, thou knowest not how, long ages after thou art departed, and the wages thou hadst are all consumed; nay, as the ancient wise have written,-- through Eternity itself, and is verily marked in the Doom-Book of a God!" - Carlyle, French Revolution

You are nothing but a fraud!

а вообще Карлейля должен читать вслух Samuel L. Jackson

см. также Жан-Батист Мольер. Лекарь поневоле

Сганарель. Тем хуже, кормилица, тем хуже. Избытка здоровья тоже следует опасаться. Право, вам очень невредно будет сделать небольшое кровопусканьице и смягчающий клистирчик.

sweet victual

"In such prophesied Lubberland, of Happiness, Benevolence, and Vice cured of its deformity, trust not, my friends! Man is not what one calls a happy animal; his appetite for sweet victual is so enormous." - Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

see also An Invitation to Lubberland

age of hope

"Or is this same Age of Hope itself but a simulacrum; as Hope too often is?" - Thomas Carlyle » The French Revolution » Book 1.II. The Paper Age

What is Hope? A smiling rainbow
Children follow through the wet;
’Tis not here, still yonder, yonder:
Never urchin found it yet.

What is Life? A thawing iceboard
On a sea with sunny shore;—
Gay we sail; it melts beneath us;
We are sunk, and seen no more.

What is Man? A foolish baby,
Vainly strives, and fights, and frets;
Demanding all, deserving nothing;—
One small grave is what he gets.

- Thomas Carlyle, ca 1827

"It has been well said: 'Man is based on Hope; he has properly no other possession but Hope; this habitation of his is named the Place of Hope.'" - Ibid.