There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
George EliotWe are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
George EliotWhen you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
George EliotSomebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
George Eliot