Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
George Eliot Quotes
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in wordy evidence of the fact.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
It’s but little good you’ll do, a watering the last year’s crop.
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
It’s them that takes advantage that get advantage in this world.
