Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
George EliotI'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.
George EliotFor character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
George Eliot