There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot
And when a womans will is as strong as the mans who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. – George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot
When a mans life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other mens actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. – Simone Weil