More quotes by Charlotte Bronte

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
"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."
"Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm."
"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."