Jane Welsh Carlyle - Letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

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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

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

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

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 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 mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

Jane Welsh Carlyle