George Eliot

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.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

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

His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax!

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

We are free to yield to truth.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Make a good use of the present.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.