George Eliot

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.