Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
GEORGE ELIOTOf new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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 ELIOTLife began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
GEORGE ELIOTVague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTTo manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOTAppearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
GEORGE ELIOTThe best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTMy own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
GEORGE ELIOTAfter all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOTThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
GEORGE ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTI desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
GEORGE ELIOT