George Eliot

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

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

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.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Kindness, love, strength and determination personified!! Madiba reminds me that everything is possible!

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.