George Eliot

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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

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

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

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one – to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

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

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

The money men make lives after them.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.