He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.