Charlotte Bronte

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.

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: read more

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel read more

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.