Michele Jacobsen’s Reviews > Middlemarch > Status Update

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

“Someone put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses,” said Mrs. Cadwallader.

-regarding Mr. Casaubon’s blood

“Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don’t understand women. They don’t admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”

- Mr. Cadwallader

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Celia Brooke

…she (Dorothea) wished, poor child, to be wise herself.

Those provinces of masculine knowledge [Greek and Latin] seemed to her a standing-ground from which all truth could be seen more truly.

Mr. Casaubon…concluded that the poets had much exaggerated the force of masculine passion.

Rill = a small stream or shallow channel cut in the ground by running water.

Also spelled Rille

Irradiate = expose to radiation (to kill)

or

To illuminate something by or as if by shining light on it

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.