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

"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."

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

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

"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."