I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOTI like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOTHuman feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOTAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOTAppearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTExamining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOTIt is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT