I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.