He never swerved from the path of integrity.

He did not know his way to the house of Rimmon.

The mere practical ability required to produce such a book as Frederick the Great might have realised a fortune in business.

Carlyle just made enough money to live in decent and wholesome comfort.
From the first Carlyle's conversation attracted Froude, and dazzled him.

But he felt, as others felt, that submission rather than intimacy was the attitude which it suggested or compelled.