Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream