Anne Brontë

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”

“Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”

“A pious man is a man who follows the dictates of his own conscience.”

“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”

“All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.”

“There is always a but in this imperfect world.”

“No one can be happy in eternal solitude.”

“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.”

“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path.”

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”

“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”

“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find.”

“But it is not the thorn twisting in the flesh that hurts most, but the thorn twisting in the mind.”

“It is a virtue to be feared, but a greater to be loved.”

“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.”

“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”

“You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead.”