If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
She burned too bright for this world.
You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
No coward soul is mine.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!