I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

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