Charlotte Brontë Quote

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.


Shirley (1849)


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.

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.

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.

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.