More quotes by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"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."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"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 am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."