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.

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.