I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

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

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.