Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

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

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.