I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. - George Eliot

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.