“Conventionality is not morality.
Self-righteousness is not religion.
To attack the first is not to assail the last.
To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee,
is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed:
they are as distinct as is vice from virtue.
Men too often confound them:
they should not be confounded….”
– Charlotte Bronte,
in her “Preface to the Second Edition” of Jane Eyre