Character: Mr. Rochester

To have a kept woman is all like buying a slave. And that and the other and by nature and in any case, the situation - as if the lower creatures, and communication with them on an equal footing humiliating.

Against women, who like me just the person I become the devil, when I am convinced that in them there is no soul, no heart. Then I suddenly have a vulgarity, banality, and maybe stupidity, coarseness, and ill temper; but a clean look and live it, fiery soul and the character that bends but does not break, susceptible and resistant, in respect of such a being I will be loyal and tender.