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

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

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

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.