One of my favorite novelists in classic English literature is Charlotte Brontë, most commonly known for her work, Jane Eyre. She was born on April 21, 1816, the third of six children. Anne and Emily Brontë were her sisters that also published novels, and all three of them wrote under pen names. Charlotte went on to publish four novels, but only Jane Eyre ever became popular.
“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"
"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.
"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"
"A pit full of fire."
"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"
"No, sir."
"What must you do to avoid it?"
I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.” ~ Jane Eyre
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”
“I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”
“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
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