I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
Anne BronteIf 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.
Anne BronteIt is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
Anne Bronte