• 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

    George Eliot: 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
    George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.254