Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.