If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

She burned too bright for this world.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!