Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

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.

I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

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.