Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour.... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?


Jane Eyre (1847)

Charlotte Brontë Quotes

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against...

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against...

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against...

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against...