as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.
Adversity is a good school.
Reader, I literally married him.
But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.