I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?'

Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish — I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.