# Quote — George Eliot, Silas Marner

> In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.

- Author: [George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md)
- Book: [Silas Marner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/silas-marner.md)
- Page: 131
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Eliot#Silas_Marner:_The_Weaver_of_Raveloe_(1861)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/silas-marner/in-old-days

## More from this book

> when a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbours to wish him joy.

p. 183 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/silas-marner/when-a-man.md)

> She was perfectly quiet now, but not asleep — only soothed by sweet porridge and warmth into that wide-gazing calm which makes us older human beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky — before a steady glowing planet, or a full-flowered eglantine, or the bending trees over a silent pathway.

p. 118 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/silas-marner/she-was-perfectly.md)

> "Ah," said Dolly, with soothing gravity, "it's like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, and the rain and the harvest — one goes and the other comes, and we know nothing how nor where. We may strive and scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all — the big things come and go wi' no striving o' our'n — they do, that they do; and I think you're in the right on it to keep the little un, Master Marner, seeing as it's been sent to you, though there's folks as thinks different."

p. 121 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/silas-marner/ah-said-dolly.md)