'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George EliotThere is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George EliotNo anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
George EliotHobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot