George Eliot

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

In every parting there is an image of death.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.