Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOTAppearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTThat by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOTI love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTShe was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTDeath is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
GEORGE ELIOT