CHARLOTTE BRONTE

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

Look twice before you leap.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

Who has words at the right moment?

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

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.

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.

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.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Conventionality is not morality.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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

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