Zitat des Tages von Charlotte Bronte:
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Conventionality is not morality.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
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.
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Who has words at the right moment?
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
Let your performance do the thinking.
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.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Look twice before you leap.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
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.
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.