Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. – George Eliot
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. – George Eliot
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. – George Eliot
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it… – George Santayana, “Chapter VIII: Prerational Morality,” The Life of Reason: Volu