“Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.”

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.”

“Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”

“The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.”

“I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.”

“If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!”

“I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! To what end?"To the end of turning to profit the talents which God has committed to your keeping; and of which he will surely one day demand a strict account.”