I looked twice . . .

A Happy Birthday salute to Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855), writer, best known for her novel, Jane Eyre.

"No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato." - Charlotte Brontë

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones." - Charlotte Brontë

“Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.” - Charlotte Brontë

“Look twice before you leap.” - Charlotte Brontë

“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.” - Charlotte Brontë

“Who has words at the right moment?” - Charlotte Brontë

Trivia bit: Charlotte Brontë used the pen name Currer Bell.

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