Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
George EliotOf a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
George EliotIt is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
George Eliot