Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not r... - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever."
"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."
"Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength."
"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."