My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
George EliotLove is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
George EliotNo evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George EliotShall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
George Eliot