Look twice before you leap.
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.
Charlotte Bronte

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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.
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.
Charlotte Bronte

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

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Charlotte Bronte

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment?
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.
Charlotte Bronte

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte