Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?
即便是满怀柔情的巨人歌利亚,若与一个娇小柔弱的生命系在一起,既怕拉扯伤了它,更怕扯断牵系的绳索,那么请问,究竟谁会做主呢?
— George Eliot · Silas Marner · Chapter XIV —