Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Chapter 14 Page 32

“That sounds a dangerous maxim, sir; because one can see at once that it is liable to abuse.”

“Sententious sage!

so it is: but I swear by my household gods not to abuse it.”

“You are human and fallible.”

“I am: so are you — what then?”

“The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.”

“What power?”

“That of saying of any strange, unsanctioned line of action, — ‘Let it be right.’”

“‘Let it be right’ —