Charlotte Bronte

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter, often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter, in the eye

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world

Better to be without logic than without feeling

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own

Look twice before you leap

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones

The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed