Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
George EliotI shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.
George Eliot... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.
George EliotIt is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot