Anne Brontë

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil, till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they …

Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.

The more you loved your God the more deep and pure and true would be your love to me.

I think your piety one of your greatest charms; but then, like all other good things, it may be carried too far. To my thinking, a woman's religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord. She should have enough to purify and …

Since I love him so much, I can easily forgive him for loving himself.

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a …

The demon of drink was as black as the demon of play, and nearly as hard to get rid of — especially as his kind friends did all they could to second the promptings of his own insatiable cravings.

What can't be cured must be endured.

At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.

I am truly miserable — more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

He despises me, because he knows I love him.

I perceive the backs of young ladies' drawings, like the postscripts of their letters, are the most important and interesting part of the concern.

This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathise with my distresses, but then it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell …

If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

A girl's affections should never be won unsought.

I imagine, there must be only a very, very few men in the world that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to …

Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!