I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
George EliotGreat feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
George EliotCan anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrownessโin plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.
George Eliot