A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

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.

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.