If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.
George EliotIf the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
George EliotThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot