“[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.”

“She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.”

“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”

“You are a young man," she said, nodding. "Take a word of advice, even from three foot nothing. Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.”

“Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!”

“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”

“...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.”