Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.


Journal entry (August 1849).


The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.