It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.