Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosit... - Charlotte Bronte

"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."

"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."

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