George Eliot

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all read more

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when read more

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Those who trust us educate us.

Those who trust us educate us.

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

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