I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.― Charlotte Brontë

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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

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They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ― Harper Lee

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Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.

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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.― Gordon A. Eadie

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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.― Abraham Lincoln

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Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.― Roy T. Bennett

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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.― Charlotte Brontë

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