George Eliot Quotes
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I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.
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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.
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College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
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I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
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"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.
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It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance to make a difference. You can always make a change for the better no matter what background you derived from. You can always do your best and be all that you can be because you will always be uniquely you. It is why it is always wise to listen to your eternal heart, your eternal instincts, and what it had always strove for and/or to do because really anybody can make a difference not only in their own lives but in the lives of others. It is never too late to shine; never.
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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Brothers are so unpleasant.
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There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
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If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.
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Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
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Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.
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One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
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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.
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Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?
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That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.
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We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.