“We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.”

“You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.”

“He’s more myself than I am”

“You should never lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning long gone before that time. A person who has not done one half of his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“Yes,' said Catherine, stroking his long soft hair, 'if I could only get papa's consent, I'd spend half my time with you - Pretty Linton! I wish you were my brother.''And then you would like me as well as your father?' observed he more cheerfully. 'But papa says you would love me better than him, and all the world, if you were my wife-so I'd rather you were that!''No! I should never love anybody better than papa,' she returned gravely. 'And people hate their wives, sometimes; but not their sisters and brothers, and if you were the latter, you would live with us, and papa would be as fond of you, as he is of me.”

“You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!”

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”