George Eliot

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk…

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections…

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through…

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by…

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the…

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord…

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest…

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us…

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face…

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true…

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them…

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it…

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern…

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine…