To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
George EliotIt is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
George EliotThe years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
George Eliot