People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in …

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humani…

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

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 ar…

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

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