It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.

Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Her scar tissue, which she seems to amass both physically and mentally, may not be pretty, but they have become tougher than if she had never been wounded at all.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

As I glow in this cold, dark night, I know I can't be a light unless I turn my face to You.

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?