"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last...

"The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show pass for sterling worth -- to let white-washed walls vouch for clean shrines. It may hate him who dares to scrutinize and expose -- to raise the gilding, and show the base metal under it -- to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but, hate as it will, it is indebted to him."

from the Preface to the Second Edition of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë