If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.
George EliotThe vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
George EliotIgnorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
George EliotBut if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot