Anne Bronte

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

All our talents increase in the using and every faculty both good and bad strengthens by exercise.

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.