More quotes by Charlotte Bronte

"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."
"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."
"Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm."