Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. Jane Welsh Carlyle bereavementcomfortcomforter Change image and share on social
The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied. Jane Welsh Carlyle bringhabitmoment Change image and share on social
Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart! Jane Welsh Carlyle assigncongratulateday share on social
They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!' Jane Welsh Carlyle amiabilitybeautifulbrimstone share on social
It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy! Jane Welsh Carlyle bearblackchirp share on social
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? Jane Welsh Carlyle destinyfashionableheartless Change image and share on social
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. Jane Welsh Carlyle exclusionhopelife Change image and share on social
Use the noble gifts which God has given you! Jane Welsh Carlyle giftgodnoble Change image and share on social
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. Jane Welsh Carlyle badlychestdole share on social
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. Jane Welsh Carlyle amuseearthfact Change image and share on social