There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.
George EliotIt is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
George EliotThere is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
George Eliot