Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
George EliotThe egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
George EliotIt is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
George EliotThere is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
George Eliot