Charlotte BronteThinkers

Culture is grounded in the idea that that there are often reasons beneath seeming absurdity.

Feeling is best mixed with reason — Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but Judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

A Grudge is unwise — life is too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Life is too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Morality is not merely conventionality.

Prejudice is most difficult to eradicate from the heart when its soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; it will grow there, firm as a weed among stones.

Reason is best mixed with feeling — Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but Judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Remorse is the poison of life.