... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.
George EliotWhen one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
George EliotHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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