Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

Let your performance do the thinking.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.