Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially… - Charlotte Brontë

Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

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

When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying through imagination's boundless and trackless waste, into the safe fold of common sense.