George Eliot

"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults."

"Feeling is deep and still; and silence is the corona of its divinity."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"What noble deeds might we perform if we were only fully persuaded of our own power?"

"The greatest delight the fields and the woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable."

"Those who have been once intoxicated with power and have derived any kind of emolument from it can never willingly abandon it."

"Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with human feeling."

"My life has a superb epigraph in the fact that I was born and I shall die."

"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them."

"The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones."

"Every life has its hidden sorrows, which the world knows nothing of."

"What a wonderful piano!"

"The young are often rash and hasty in their opinions, whilst age sometimes settles in them through mere habit."

"Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. It is a subtle sophism that mistake."

"A maiden's name should be unknown beyond the gates of her father's house."

"Community is where you make it. I found it here not in geography but in people."

"The great deeds of philosophers are concealed."

"There can be no delusion more fatal to a man than thinking that he is wiser than he is."

"We are not merely passive recipients of tradition but creative beings shaped by our choices."

"Time softens the gruffest of hearts."

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bond to one another."

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

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

"Literature is the most direct and immediate approach to truth."

"Where equality is impossible, justice is impossible."

"A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them."

"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual."

"The very essence of tragedy is that it is irreversible."

"To know all is to forgive all."

"Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be."