What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.
George EliotExplain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
George EliotLife is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
George Eliot