Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Bronte. English novelist and poet (1816–1855)
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.