For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.
Charlotte BronteI can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.
Charlotte BronteIf we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte BronteMy fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter.
Charlotte BronteA great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
Charlotte Bronte