George Eliot

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

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.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

The first wealth is health.

We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.