The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
George EliotMiserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
George EliotThese fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.
George Eliot