Quotes by Jane Welsh Carlyle

“When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.”

“People who are so dreadfully devoted to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other peoples wives as well”

“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustnt it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?”

“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.”

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

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time or is like to--this art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustnt it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?

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

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.