Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. Auteur: George Eliot Copy Quote More from George Eliot “There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than tha…” “Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engi…” “Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to…” “When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years…”