Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart would do.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

I wish I could love people as you do, Molly!' 'Don't you?' said the other, in surprise. 'No. A good number of people love me, I believe, or at least they think they do; but I never seem to care much for any one. I do believe I love you, little Molly, whom I have only known for ten days, better than any one.