More from George Eliot
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Ch, 4 (1879); comparable to. James Russell Lowell 1871: Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.- Often credited to T. S. Eliot
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Adam Bede (1859), Chapter 33
