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If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose mysel...more

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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.

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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

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Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and...more

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To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground...more

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I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celesti...more

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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; yo...more

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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

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I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. And...more

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One morning at the end of the two years, as I was writing a letter to his dictation, he came and bent over me, and said--"Jane, have you a glittering ...more

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To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and ...more

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Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.

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I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs ...more