More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. – George Eliot
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. – George Eliot
If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any ones judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any mans judgment. – Joanna Southcott
The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. – James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960