George Henry Lewes Quotes

LEWES, George Henry Quotes

(1817-1878), English author

Character

Character is built out of circumstances.—From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

Piety

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world and villifying human nature.

Violence

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.