Charlotte Bronte Quotes

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.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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 there, firm as weeds among rocks.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.

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.

