I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
It is not violence that best overcomes hate – nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
Look twice before you leap.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
Little Jane’s love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
I don’t call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don’t flatter me.
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Rapidly, merrily, Life’s sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.