The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
George Eliot"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
George EliotI think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.
George Eliot