Charlotte Bronte

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

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.

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

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

Look twice before you leap.