#romanticism

“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth. "The Wedding Knell" (1837) from Twice”

“The Maypole of Merry Mount”

“Lo, there ye stand, my children,”

“By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places”

“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England's hereditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New England's sons will vindicate their ancestry. "The Gray Champion" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”

“Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system , and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. "Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”

“Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day. "Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”

“It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections ; not that they gape so long and wide”

“Sketches from Memory”

“If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities. "Fanshawe"”

“Me es muy odioso inventar para otro... Fray Manuel (Bayeu) no necesita que otro le invente”

“La casa es la sepultura de las mujeres”

“El mayor enemigo de los aragoneses son los aragoneses”

“So hopeless is the world without; The world within I doubly prize; Thy world, where guile, and hate, and doubt, And cold suspicion never rise; Where thou, and I, and Liberty, Have undisputed sovereignty. "To Imagination", st. 2”

“When weary with the long day's care, And earthly change from pain to pain, And lost and ready to despair, Thy kind voice calls me back again: Oh, my true friend! I am not lone, While thou canst speak with such a tone! "To Imagination", st. 1”

“A Little While, a Little While”

“But first a hush of peace, a soundless calm descends; The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends Mute music sooths my breast”

“He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars; Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire And visions rise and change which kills me with desire. The Prisoner , st. 10”

“Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now? Since passion may not fire thee Shall Nature cease to bow? Thy mind is ever moving In regions dark to thee; Recall its useless roving”

“The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees are bending Their bare boughs weighed with snow, And the storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go. Clouds beyond clouds above me, Wastes beyond wastes below; But nothing drear can move me”

“I Saw Thee, Child, One Summer Day”

“First melted off the hope of youth Then Fancy's rainbow fast withdrew And then experience told me truth In mortal bosoms never grew 'Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow, servile, insincere; But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same corruption there. "I Am the Only Being", st. 5”

“I Am the Only Being”

“I have twice seen Macready act; once in Macbeth and once in Othello . I astounded a dinner”

“Yesterday I went for the second time to the Crystal Palace. We remained in it about three hours, and I must say I was more struck with it on this occasion than at my first visit. It is a wonderful place”

“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. 15 January, 1849. As quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870), p. 285”

“real experience is perennially interesting, and to all men.”

“The letters of Charlotte Brontë (edited by Margaret Smith), Vol. I: 1829”

“If you like poetry let it be first”

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? Jane Eyre”

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Carolyn Warner (1992), page 135”

“I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance”

“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! In response to George Henry Lewes (LL, II, v, 272); Miriam Farris Allott (1974), The Brontës, the critical heritage, page 160;”