Jane Welsh Carlyle

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Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801 - 1866) was the wife of Thomas Carlyle.

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• A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
  • To Thomas Carlyle (January 1825)

• In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting, and, alas! self-seeking me.
  • To John Sterling (June 15, 1835)

• Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!
  • To Eliza Stodart (February 29, 1836)

• Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.
  • To John Sterling (August 5, 1845)

• I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.
  • To Thomas Carlyle (September 28, 1845)

• 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 (August 1849)

• Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written—as long as I keep my senses, at least.
  • Journal (July 16, 1858)

• The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset — that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
  • To Miss Barnes (August 24, 1859)

External links

• Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

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