Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.