Time Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white,…

— John Christopher

“He possessed that quality in his profanity of not offending by it.”

— Owen Wister

“I was often forced to whip him, which some men do not mind doing and which in fact some enjoy doing, but which I…

— Patrick deWitt

“This ordinarily even-tempered man struck furiously at his heart like some fanatic at prayer, and, assailed by remorse not just for this mistake but…

— Philip Roth

“Never judge badly a rage of a very patient heart who had let go many repetitive offenses from insufferable bastards.”

— Angelica Hopes

“All throughout his life, he'd been rewarded by sticking to a simple philosophy: refuse to be weak. Push as hard as you can. Pain…

— Kent Wayne

“So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions.”

— Courtney Kirchoff

“all his life he had “endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I must say that I have always felt that, in the deepest sense, we are all brothers. Class distinctions have never meant anything to…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Surprisingly, I felt no anger towards him. He was just Man. Man in his basic, rudimentary state, easily moved by powerful emotions like love,…

— Helon Habila

“To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the man who rejects men for being too good.”

— Ayn Rand