“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. … Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is — I repeat it — a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them. “

- Charlotte Brontë, Preface to Jane Eyre

Posted November 26th, 2009 - Permalink
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: Quotes
You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.