Quotes

1.I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

2.The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

3.A ruffled mind makes
a restless pillow.

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

5.It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

6.I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. 

7.Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. 

8.I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. 

9.You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. 

10.Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. 

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

12.Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. 

13.If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.