'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George EliotWhat novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
George EliotI hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
George Eliot