Charlotte Bronte

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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

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

Let your performance do the thinking.

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

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

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Who has words at the right moment?

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.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.