It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
George EliotMighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.
George EliotAlas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
George Eliot