Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.