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

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

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.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.