Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George EliotIn the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
George EliotThere's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
George EliotThere is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
George Eliot