A Place to Start

“Suppose we turn from outside estimates of a man, to wonder, with keener interest, what is the report of his own consciousness about his doings or capacity: with what hinderances he is carrying on his daily labours; what fading hopes, or what deeper fixity of self-delusion the years are marking  off within him; and with what spirit he wrestles against universal pressure, which will one day be too heavy for him, and bring his heart to its final pause.”

George Eliot