More From George Eliot
- "Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."
- "Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
- "Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive."
More In History
- "You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job."― Richard M. Nixon
- "Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently."― Charles Dudley Warner
- "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."― Dan Quayle