If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we mus... - Charlotte Bronte

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

"I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you."

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

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

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