Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain... - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"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 would always rather be happy than dignified."

"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."

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."