It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Cures Copy Share Image
youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy! — Jane Welsh Carlyle Happiness Copy Share Image
Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the… — Jane Welsh Carlyle After Copy Share Image
There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Anyone Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Attractive Copy Share Image
One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Conforming Copy Share Image
But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Always Copy Share Image
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Bait Copy Share Image
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Bless Copy Share Image
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Habit Copy Share Image
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Acquaintances Copy Share Image
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Anger Copy Share Image
They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Am Copy Share Image
Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Am Copy Share Image
cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them! — Jane Welsh Carlyle Care Copy Share Image
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Doe Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Amount Copy Share Image
It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Able Copy Share Image
I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Accustomed Copy Share Image
'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Bear Copy Share Image
I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.' — Jane Welsh Carlyle Drunk Copy Share Image
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Anger Copy Share Image
