Novelist Frank Herbert said, "I refuse to be put in the position of telling my grandchildren: 'Sorry, there's no more world for you. We used it all up.'"

On this day in 1847, Charlotte Brontë published her novel Jane Eyre under the pseudonym "Currer Bell." It's a story about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess, and it was an immediate success. In Jane Eyre, Brontë writes, "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."