Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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
Jane Welsh Carlyle

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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
Jane Welsh Carlyle

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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
Jane Welsh Carlyle

I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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
Jane Welsh Carlyle

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

'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.

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they were doing. If I were the Government, I should feel rather ashamed of making regulations one month and unmaking them the next.

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.