Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.