Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.
George EliotThe rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
George Eliot... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
George Eliot