Thursday Quote: Charlotte Brontë

"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