Charlotte Bronte

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. "

"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. "

"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. "

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. "

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

"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it. "

"Look twice before you leap. "

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

"No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. "

"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 there, firm as weeds among rocks. "

"The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself. "