“So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.”

“with the book on my knee , i was happy ,i feared nothing except interruption.”

“You are no ruin, sir—no lightning-struck tree: you aregreen and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots,whether you ask them or not, because they take delightin your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will leantowards you, and wind round you, because your strengthoffers them so safe a prop.”

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us. ~Jane Eyre”

“He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.”

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”

“En mi vida, he tenido sueños que han quedado conmigo para siempre y han cambiado mis ideas, han calado muy hondo en mí, y como el vino en el agua, han cambiado el color de mi mente.”