It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
George EliotUnwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
George EliotIf we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.
George EliotWe have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
George Eliot