Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; i... - Charlotte Bronte

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

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

"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent."

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

"To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment."