More quotes by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."
"Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."
"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."
"To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking."
"My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive."