The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.
George EliotWe are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
George EliotLife is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
George Eliot