There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
George EliotWhen the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.
George EliotSurely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
George EliotIn spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot