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

#charms #dreams #heart #hidden #hopes

Conventionality is not morality. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#morality

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#backward #forward #i #keep #looking

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. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#beings #cannot #find #human #human beings

My little friend!" said he, "I wish I were in a quiet island with only you; and trouble, and danger, and hideous recollections removed from me. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#love

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#being #bird #free #human #human being

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#mind #pillow #restless

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

— Charlotte Bronte

#god #judge #looks #men #our

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

— Charlotte Bronte

#fortunately #interpreter #often #soul #still

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#give #hang #him #himself #rope