More quotes by Charlotte Bronte

"I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you."
"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."
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."