Charlotte Brontë quotes
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. 
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 there, firm as weeds among stones. 
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. 
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. 
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. 
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? 
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. 
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. 
I am not an angel... and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself 
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. All Charlotte Brontë quotes ⇑
Flirting is a woman's trade, one must keep in practice.
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.
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.
I ask you to pass through life at my side-to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
"Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."
"Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.