I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
George EliotMortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George EliotMen outlive their love, but they donโt outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
George EliotIt was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.
George Eliot