What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him. . .
Source: Letter, 10 Sept. 1833, to John Stuart Mill (published in Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1923). Mill had given Emerson a letter of introduction to Carlyle, which Emerson presented in person.
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.