Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlylewas the wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle and has been cited as the reason for his fame and fortune. She was most notable as a letter-writer. In 1973, G.B. Tennyson described her as...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 January 1801
preparation way exclusion
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
moon ideas heaven
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!
mother loss world
the longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...
long care cracked
cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
destiny wife heartless
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?
differences bears earth
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.
circles justice individuality
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.
lying father medicine
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.
stupid teaching earth
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.
people drunk promise
I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
children fool bait
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
make-happy insane youth
youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
ideas longing goodness
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.
long written senses
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.