More quotes by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
"I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me."
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
"Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine."
"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."