You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
George EliotIf people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.
George EliotNo evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George EliotEverybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
George Eliot