Quote of the Day (George Eliot, on Youth, ‘The Season of Hope’)

“[Y]outh is the season of hope... only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt... to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final,... because it is new.” — English novelist Mary Ann Evans, a.k.a. George Eliot (1819-1880), Middlemarch (1871)