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Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

«When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.»
«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?»
«The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.»
«The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.»
«Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.»