We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
George EliotWith memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
George EliotLove at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
George Eliot