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as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic.

In short, woman was a problem which, since Mr Brooke's mind felt blank before it, could be hardly less complicated than the revolutions of an irregular solid.

his lips were curled with that incipient smile which is apt to accompany agreeable recollections.

A thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the 'Pilgrim's Progress'.

the red drapery which was being hung for Christmas spreading itself everywhere like a disease of the retina. Not

But at present this caution against a too hasty judgment interests me more in relation to Mr. Casaubon than to his young cousin. If

She says, he is a great soul.—A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in! said Mrs. Cadwallader.

Indeed, she herself was accustomed to think that entire freedom from the necessity of behaving agreeably was included in the Almighty's intentions about families.

Bulstrode, after a moment's hesitation, took his hat from the floor and slowly rose

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book.

Still, I repeat, there was a general impression that Lydgate was something rather more uncommon than any general practitioner in Middlemarch. And

T]he Meyricks, whose various knowledge had been acquired by the irregular foraging to which clever girls have usually been reduced...

Let us bind love with duty; for duty is the love of law; and law is the nature of the Eternal.' So we bound ourselves.

Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable. —Justice Shallow.

Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The

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.

I am telling the history of very simple people, who had never had any illuminating doubts as to personal integrity and honor.

People can easily take the sacred word duty as a name for what they desire any one else to do.

I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises," said Mr Casaubon.

For the egoism which enter into our theories does not effect their sincerity, rather the more our egoism is satisfied the more robust is our belief

if it were possible for a healthy female mind even to simulate

The eager theorizing of ages is compressed, as in a seed, in the want of a single mind.

You can get yourself pretty thoroughly lost, in time and space, if you don't know where you are or where you have just come from. How is this relevant to creative writing and writing programs? First of all, there is a certain amount of misinformation masquerading as assumed history -- as the story of creative writing in America.

Religion has had the disastrous effect of placing vitally important concepts, such as morality, happiness and love, in a supernatural realm inaccessible to man's mind and knowledge.