“Alas, Experience!”

“Alas! never had I loved him so well!”

“Teistä on siis hauskaa lähteä pois luotani?""Ei ollenkaan, Bessie! Totta puhuen, tällä hetkellä oikeastaan suren sitä.""Tällä hetkellä! ja oikeastaan! Miten kylmästi pikku neiti sen sanookaan. Luulenpa, että jos pyytäisin teiltä suukon ette antaisi sitä vaan sanoisitte, että että oikeastaan halua.""Annan sinulle suukon mielihyvin, kumarruhan alas.”

“As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.”

“I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.”

“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined!”

“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.”