The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
George EliotItโs rather a strong check to oneโs self-complacency to find how much of oneโs right doing depends on not being in want of money.
George EliotSurely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
George Eliot