George Eliot

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."

"Delighted people are always delightful."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."

"Only in the agitated mind does God talk."

"If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth."

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?"

"The greatest delight is in giving delight."

"Wear the cheerful colors fate puts on you."

"There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than take it with complete seriousness."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"If we only looked on the best qualities of others, they would grow in our sight."

"Ignorance is not bliss, it is oblivion."

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."

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

"There is a terrible delight in watching a creature who has been living in darkness emerge into the light."

"Friendship is the purest love."

"The blessed of heaven only are those who are conscious of the depths of human misery."

"Every person carries within them the possibility of vast development."

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

"O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again."

"Any woman who has a great talent may feel that she cannot do her duty to the world by shutting herself within a narrow and private life."

"Love will make a man work wonders."

"Character is not cut in marble; it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing."

"I'm not denying that women are foolish; God Almighty made them to match the men."

"There is some charm about the very meaninglessness of their talk."

"If we see a face we do not know, and are struck by its fineness, it is because in it we discern the presence of a soul."