Quotes from Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

I will bestir myself, ' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.