and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.
George EliotA toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George EliotHabit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
George Eliot