One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
George EliotA mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
George EliotThe best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.
George Eliot