bronte Quotes

“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”

“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”

“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”

“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.”

“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 see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.”

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”

“Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?”

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”

“Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”