I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.

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.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

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

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.