If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
George EliotThe greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.
George EliotI tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
George Eliot