Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not al... - Charlotte Bronte

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

"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."

"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."

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

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