It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George EliotLife is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
George EliotWe all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
George EliotI at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
George Eliot