On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.
Charlotte BronteIt is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
Charlotte Bronte... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'
Charlotte BronteThe practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.
Charlotte Bronte