The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.