There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. – George Eliot
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. – George Eliot
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his masters commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style. – W. H. Auden