George Eliot

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we’re so fond of it.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness – calling their denial knowledge.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Self-command is the main discipline.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.