God did not give me my life to throw away. — Charlotte Brontë

I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified.

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.