George Eliot Squares Quotations

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.