More From George Eliot
- "We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."
- "But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
- "For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love."
More In Power
- "Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."― John Quincy Adams
- "Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched."― Thomas Fuller
- "You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery."― Colin Powell