In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
George Eliot
(1819 - 1880)
Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 15 (1871–72).
