George Eliot

It’s them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

You show your worth by what you seek! – Rumi

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Travel is a fools paradise.