I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.

Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

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

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

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.