George Eliot

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

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.

People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.

Every wall is a door.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Don’t be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don’t bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don’t waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.