It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others.Anne Brontë
How little our parents know what we really are...Agnes Grey
I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.Agnes Grey
No one could quarrel with me without incurring some punishment.Anges Grey
If such are my temptations, how much greater are those of people, who have all their lives long been spoiled and indulged.Agnes Grey
My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry.Agnes Grey
The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.Agnes Grey
To weep because the summer flowers won't bloom, or the icy snow is there, would be as senseless as to... lament over the irrevocable fact that I wasn't born a little boy....Agnes Grey
There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.Anne Brontë
I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden when they were goneAgnes Grey