There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fello... - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
"My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence."
"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!"