Charlotte Bronte

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. ”

It is in 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 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. ”