The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
George EliotThere's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
George EliotCharacter is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
George Eliot