The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
‘Last Lines’
Though earth and moon were gone
And suns and universes ceased to be
And thou wert left alone
Every existence would exist in thee.
‘Last Lines’
Oh! dreadful is the check—intense the agony—
When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see;
When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again;
The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.
‘The Prisoner’
Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers,
From those brown hills, have melted into spring.
‘Remembrance’ (1846)
Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
While the world’s tide is bearing me along;
Other desires and other hopes beset me,
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!
‘Remembrance’ (1846)
But when the days of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy,
Then did I learn how existence could be cherished,
Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.
‘Remembrance’ (1846)
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and
he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter
changes the trees—My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath:—a source of little
visible delight, but necessary.
‘Wuthering Heights’ (1847) ch. 9
I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath
and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one
could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
‘Wuthering Heights’ (1847) closing words
2.203 Patrick Brontë 1777-1861
No quailing, Mrs Gaskell! no drawing back!