I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.


The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851 (1954 edition)


I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.