Middlemarch Quotes

“A man’s mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch