But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

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.

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

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.