One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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 EliotI can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.
George EliotSelfishโ a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
George Eliot