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

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

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

"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."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."

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