One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
George EliotPride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
George EliotSane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
George EliotFine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
George EliotIs not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot