In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.


Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot (ed. 1873)

George Eliot Quotes

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which...

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which...

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which...

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which...