The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. – George Eliot
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. – George Eliot
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. – Thomas B. Macaulay