“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - …”
George Eliot book Silas Marner
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 18 (at page 163)

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - …”
George Eliot book Silas Marner
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 18 (at page 163)
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
George Eliot book Silas Marner
Source: Silas Marner