There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Thomas Carlyle
Life
A quote by Thomas Carlyle
From the source
Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.