“ The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. George Eliot
“ Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it— can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity in… George Eliot
“ Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. George Eliot
“ But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me. What is that? said Will, rather jealous of the belief.That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and can not d… George Eliot
“ It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St John. They look like fragments of heaven.… George Eliot
“ She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she could walk steadily to the place allotted her. A new searching light had falle… George Eliot
“ Burnout at its deepest level is not the result of some train wreck of examinations, long call shifts, or poor clinical evaluations. It is the sum total of hundreds and thousands of tiny betrayals of p… Richard Gunderman
“ ...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented… George Eliot
