But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.
George EliotIn bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the pastโsensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
George EliotFor we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
George Eliot