Charlotte Bronte

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

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

“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”

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

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

“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.”