Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot
Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. – George Eliot
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. – James Buchan