Charlotte Bronte Quotes
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Smith, Elder & Co., 1847.
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims. In addition to being a philosophjer and theologian, Spinmoza was one the the leading scientific experts in optics and the grinding of lenses for schientif instruments and eye glasses. (The lens grinders were the opticians of the era. Both before and after his excummunications his friends were scientists, philosopners and mathematicians.
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.