“But,” I again broke in, “where the bodily presence is weak and speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?”
Reason only answered, “At your peril you cherish that idea, or suffer its influence to animate any writing of yours!”
“But if I feel, may I never express?”
“Never!” declared Reason.
{Charlotte Bronte, Villette}
