61 Quotes by Jane Welsh Carlyle

If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.

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

I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no!

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

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.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want.

Use the noble gifts which God has given you!