Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes


How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.


Citations

Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Edited by James Anthony Froude, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883.

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Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Born: January 14, 1801
  • Died: April 21, 1866
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Writer

Jane Welsh Carlyle was a Scottish writer. She did not publish any work in her lifetime, but she was widely seen as an extraordinary letter writer. Virginia Woolf called her one of the "great letter writers," and Elizabeth Hardwick described her work as a "private writing career."