Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.
Look twice before you leap.
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Published Sources for
the above Quotations:
F:
"Jane Eyre," ch. 29, 1847.
R:
Preface to "Wuthering Heights," 1849.
A:
"Shirley," ch. 9, 1849.
N:
"Jane Eyre," ch. 21, 1847.
K:
In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
