Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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