It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
George EliotHabit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
George EliotFor my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.
George EliotWe have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
George Eliot