George Eliot

"Every life touches countless other lives in ways we never realize."

"The artist's gift is to illuminate the invisible."

"Humor is wisdom wrapped in laughter."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"We are all works in progress, forever becoming."

"The most profound discoveries are often the simplest."

"In connection with others, we find our true self."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in its presence."

"The voice within you is the truest guide you possess."

"Life is both a question and the process of answering it."

"The greatest inheritance is an open heart."

"Science is humanity's attempt to understand the divine design."

"In our flaws, we find our most authentic humanity."

"Every moment is an opportunity for grace."

"The fundamental principle of morality is that we should act as we would wish others to act toward us."

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is silent all around us."

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

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

"There is no greater torment than to be invisible."

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

"Delightful to have friends whose minds are of such superior quality that one cannot quarrel with them."

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

"Time is the greatest teacher, but it teaches by taking things away."

"What is jealousy but the shadow of love cast upon the heart?"

"A man of science is not here to have his feelings consulted; he is here to learn the truth."

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

"Sorrow comes in great waves, but it rolls over us, and though it goes, it leaves us on the shore, and different—torn into new shapes."

"If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally."

"The devil can quote scripture for his own ends."