Charlotte bronte

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

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...

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.

Look twice before you leap.

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.

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

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

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

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