I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
