To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

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.

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.