George Eliot Quote

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

The Writings of George Eliot: Romola (ed. 1907)

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as...

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as...

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as...

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as...