“You are human and fallible.”

“The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.”

“You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!”

“Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consist only in a capacity to make others wretched”

“Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world.”

“You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.”

“I am a free human being with an independent will."Jane Eyre”