I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

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 would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

The rule in life is like with tennis: One point won't lose you the match, but if you let it get to you, it will.

Consistent relevancy is to improve and advance more in understanding

There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US - from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.

The horse needs to respect you, but sometimes people confuse respect & fear. And they're not the same at all.

The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future.

Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed.

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.