It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you. - George Eliot

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

But what a voice! It was like the voice of a soul that had once lived in an Aeolian harp.

An accomplished woman almost always knows more than we men, though her knowledge is of a different sort. I am sure you could teach me a thousand things--as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language between them. Happily, there is a common language between women and men, and so the bears can get taught.