Charlotte Bronte
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Dreams
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Age
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.Collection: Life
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.Collection: Independence
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.Collection: Death
Look twice before you leap.Collection: Wisdom
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Strength
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
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'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
Let your performance do the thinking.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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.
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.
Who has words at the right moment?
Conventionality is not morality.
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.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.Collection: Doe
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.Collection: Want
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.Collection: Trying
The shadows are as important as the light.Collection: Light
Your will shall decide your destiny.Collection: Destiny
His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.Collection: Mind
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.Collection: Happiness
The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.Collection: Ocean
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.Collection: Silence
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.Collection: Summer
Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.Collection: Giving
To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.Collection: Character
Misery generates hate.Collection: Hate
Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.Collection: Eye
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!Collection: Fighting
Remorse is the poison of life.Collection: Regret
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.Collection: Missing
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.Collection: Tired