Your will shall decide your destiny. - Charlotte Brontë

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.

I ask you to pass through life at my side — to be my second self, and best earthly companion.