Adversity is a good school.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

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

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

I am no bird and no net ensnares me

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won.