Aaron’s Reviews > Middlemarch > Status Update

“… there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little … perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardour of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly. Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change!”