“The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of the faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. Constancy and faithfulness mean something else besides doing what is easiest and pleasantest to ourselves. They mean renouncing whatever is opposed to the reliance others have in us – whatever would cause misery to those whom the course of our lives has made dependent on us. . . . Her sympathies went out more readily towards enthusiasm for the discharge of duties than for the assertion of rights.”
From a Review on George Eliot
“It is this power of perishing to give rise to something beyond and greater than itself, or being worn out in the act of producing something nobler than itself, that constitutes the worth of any created thing, and not its capacity of its own enjoyment, however useful this enjoyment may be in keeping it in healthful working order.”
JAMES RAM
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