45 quotes
British novelist and poet (1816-1855)
“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel.”
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
on Philosophy
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."
on Freedom
"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."
on Identity
"Conventionality is not morality."
"I write because I cannot NOT write."
on Writing
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own."
on Love
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."
"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."
on Faith
"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."
on Emotion
"Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings."
"Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime."
"I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs."
on Life
"Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still"
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide."
"Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day."
on Relationships
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
"Better to be without logic than without feeling."
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
"His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
on Forgiveness
