3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte 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.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte You had no right to be born for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person’s strength.