Charlotte Bronte

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Look twice before you leap.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

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.

Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

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

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing warm and racy its after-flavor metallic and corroding gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.