Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George EliotLife is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.
George EliotImpatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
George EliotStarting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
George Eliot