It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
George EliotOur instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
George EliotIt was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
George Eliot