... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
George EliotItโs rather a strong check to oneโs self-complacency to find how much of oneโs right doing depends on not being in want of money.
George EliotWhen you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
George EliotOh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot