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. Jane Welsh Carlyle More Quotes by Jane Welsh Carlyle More Quotes From Jane Welsh Carlyle But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us. Jane Welsh Carlyle friends husband mother love Use the noble gifts which God has given you! Jane Welsh Carlyle gifts you noble god Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust. Jane Welsh Carlyle worth woman friends men I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit. Jane Welsh Carlyle live see cry spirit 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! Jane Welsh Carlyle i-wonder worse thought wonder Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart! Jane Welsh Carlyle day myself me heart
