How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

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.

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

He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

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.