George Eliot

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a…

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns…

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird…

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is…

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

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving…

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another…

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another…

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of…

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

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions they pass no criticisms…

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant…

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands…

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest…

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