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?

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.