Look twice before you leap.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

—Charlotte Bronte

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

—Charlotte Bronte

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

—Charlotte Bronte

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

—Charlotte Bronte

For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we're stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.

—Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it.

—Kiera Cass in The Heir

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

—H. L. Mencken