"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!"
"All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever."
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing."