<P> The book was based on a course of lectures he had given . The French Revolution had brought Carlyle fame, but little money . His friends worked to set him on his feet by organising courses of public lectures for him, drumming up an audience and selling guinea tickets . Carlyle did not like lecturing, but found that he could do it, and more importantly that it brought in some much - needed money . Between 1837 and 1840, Carlyle delivered four such courses of lectures . The final course was on "Heroes ." From the notes he had prepared for this course, he wrote out his book, reproducing the curious effects of the spoken discourses . </P> <P> "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1840): </P> <Ul> <Li> "In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream ." </Li> <Li> "A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things ." </Li> <Li> "All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books ." </Li> <Li> "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us . The greatest university of all is a collection of books ." </Li> <Li> "The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire ." </Li> <Li> "Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity ." (Often shortened to "can't stand prosperity" as an unknown quote .) </Li> <Li> "Not what I have, but what I do, is my kingdom ." </Li> </Ul> <Li> "In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream ." </Li>

Which man was not a reformer of the romantic period