... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
George Eliot... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.
George EliotThere is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
George Eliot