“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and weaker man ... One hoped, the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.”

“They DO live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing.”

“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”

“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”

“It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.”

“People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”