George Eliot

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

'Tis what I love determines how I love.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.

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 they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.

Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Those who trust us educate us.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.