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
long-ago long laziness
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
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.
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.
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.
engagement earth hazards
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
air singing battle
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
mother time loss
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
self justice effort
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.
children littles nasty
Young children are such nasty little beasts!
heart attractive quantity
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
descend ideal knows oh reasonable shall
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?