I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

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

He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.

... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?