It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to al… - Charlotte Brontë

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.