One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
George EliotIt is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George EliotThere is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
George Eliot