“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
