Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George EliotWe are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
George EliotCan any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
George Eliot