Charlotte Bronte

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. ”

Better to be without logic than without feeling. ”

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. ”

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

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. ”

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

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

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. ”

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. ”

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. ”