I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

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.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.