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

"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."

"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."

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

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."