George Eliot

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and read more

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.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular read more

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.

Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.