What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.
George EliotIgnorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
George EliotNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot